Philology

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Transcription Error in Rahula's What the Buddha Taught

Walpola Rahula’s classic What the Buddha Taught has a nice selection of translations from the Pali canon in the back. I was ...

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Bāla Tantras: Origin, State of Scholarship, and Influence

On September 27, 2023 I delivered a lecture (via a video call) at the International Seminar on Tantric Religion, Pondicherry Unive...

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Misquoting Marx

The other course I am teaching this term is Introduction to the Study of Religion. We are using Jeffrey Kripal’s excellent t...

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Initial Thoughts on the Title of Kālidāsa’s Vikramorvaśīyam

I am reading Kālidāsa’s play Vikramorvaśīyam with students this week. We are using the English translation of V. Narayana Ra...

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Interview with Raj Balkaran on Early Tantric Medicine

I recently recorded the following interview with Dr. Raj Balkaran at New Books Network on my first book, Early Tantric Medicine. W...

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Artwork of A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses, Part 12 of 12

The final passage in A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses is very unique—it is quite possibly the only example in world history that a...

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Artwork of A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses, Part 11 of 12

Chapter 11 illuminates the Tantric “goddess of desire” Kāmeśvarī. Her chapter in A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses differs from all...

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Artwork of A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses, Part 3 of 12

This next line drawing created for A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses is Kauśikī, a girl-form of the Great Goddess who fends for her...

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Interview with Raj Balkaran: A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses

Click the image above to listen to a recent interview on A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses that I did with Raj Balkaran for New Boo...

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Support my Tantric Medicine Book Project

I have launched a project page on Kickstarter to help me get my book on the Gāruḍam medical tradition finalized and sent to a publ...