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142419 UE The Tantra Section in Sahajavajra‘s Sthitisamasa (2022S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 14 - Orientalistik, Afrikanistik, Indologie und Tibetologie
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

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max. 24 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine

Fr, 13:00-14:30, digital!, ab 4.3.

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Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

In this introductory course we get to know the Indian and Tibetan idioms of the Buddhist yoginītantras, also called “mother tantras” (Tib. Ma rgyud) in Tibetan Buddhism. For this purpose, we will primarily read the tantric chapter of Sahajavajra’s “Summary of Positions” (Sthitismāsa). There is not much known about the life of Sahajavajra, except that he became one of Maitrīpa’s (986-1063) four heart disciples after he had been defeated in debate. The strong Kālacakra influence in the tantric part of the Sthitisamāsa, it quotes twenty and a half verses from the Sekoddeśa, raises some doubt whether our text was by the same Sahajavajra who authored the commentary on the Tattvadaśaka. Yet, in verse 6.18ab of the Sthitisamāsa, Sahajavajra claims, which is tell-tale sign for the doctrinal differences with Kālacakra that Sahajavajra shares with his teacher Maitrīpa.
We will read my preliminary edition of the Sanskrit (NGMPP reel no. B 24/4, fols. 11-17) and the Tibetan based on the Derge and Peking Bstan ’gyur Tengyur, as well the the Dpal spungs edition.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

The assessment is based on:
Essay 50%
Class participation 30%
Presentation in class 20%

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

A minimum of 4 semesters of Sanskrit and/or 4 semesters of classical Tibetan.

Prüfungsstoff

Preparing an annotated translation on a text passage of reasonable size from Sahajavajra's text

Literatur

Grönbold, Günther 1969, Ṣaḍaṅgayoga: Raviśrījñāna’s Guṇabharaṇī nāma Ṣaḍaṅgayogaṭippaṇī mit Text, Übersetzung und literaturhistorischem Hintergrund. Munich.

Guenther, Herbert 1993, Ecstatic Spontaneity: Saraha’s Three Cycles of Dohā. Berkeley: Asian Humanity Press.

Mathes, Klaus-Dieter, 2019, “*Sahajavajra’s integration of Tantra into mainstream Buddhism: An analysis of his *Tattvadaśakaṭīkā and *Sthitisamāsa.” In Tantric Communities in Context, edited by Nina Mirnig, Marion Rastelli, and Vincent Eltschinger. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 137–69.

Matsuda, K. 1995, “Sahajavajra´s Manual on Buddhism (Sthitisamuccaya): The Discovery of its Sanskrit Manuscripts”, JIBS, vol. 63, no. 2, 848-843 (= 205-10).

Orofino, Giacomella, 1994, Sekoddeśa. A Cirtical Edition of the Tibetan Translations. Serie Orientale Roma 72. Rome: IsMEO

Sferra, Francesco 2000, The Ṣaḍaṅgayoga by Anupamarakṣita: With Raviśrījñāna’s Guṇabharaṇīnā- maṣaḍaṅgayogaṭippaṇī. Text and annotated translation. Serie Orientale Roma LXXXV. Roma: Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente. Rome: Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

BA12b UEa

Letzte Änderung: Do 03.03.2022 15:28