Tilopā: A Buddhist Yogin of the Tenth Century

Contents
Maps and Illustrations
Abbreviations
Orthographic Conventions
Preface
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Acknowledgments
I —Waters, Kings, Polities, and Cities
Gaṅgā and Pāṭaliputra
Krīpura, Koṭālipāḍā, and Karṇasuvarṇa
Bengal After Śaśāṅka
Samataṭa
Harikela
Arakan
Tāranātha’s Candras: a Conjecture
The Pālas
Gopāla
Dharmapāla
Nālandā Mahāvihāra
Uddaṇḍapura Mahāvihāra
Vikramaśīla Mahāvihāra
Somapura Mahāvihāra
Trikuṭaka Vihāra
Devapāla
After Devapāla
The Candras of Arakan
The Kingdom of Harikela
The Candras of Bengal
Pūrṇacandra
Suvarṇacandra
Trailokyacandra
Śrīcandra
Notes to the First Chapter
II — The Hagiographic Tradition
The Sources
Source α ― Shamsher Manuscript
Source β ― Mar pa
Source γ ― Vajrāsana
Source δ ― Abhayadatta
Source ε ― sGam po pa
Source ζ ― Vibhūticandra
Source η ― rGyal thang pa
Source θ ― rDo rje mdzes ’od
Source ι ― U rgyan pa
Source κ ― Mon rtse pa
Source λ ― gTsang smyon He ru ka
Source μ ― Kun dga’ rin chen
Source ν ― dBang phyug rgyal mtshan
Source ξ ― lHa btsun
Words for Tradition and Traditions of Words
Yoginītantras
Cakraśaṃvara
Abhiṣekas
Cittaviśrāma, Manobhaṅga, and Uḍḍiyāna
Ḍākinīs and Siddhas
Śmaśānas
Outlines
Shamsher Manuscript (α)
Mar pa (β)
rGyal thang pa (η)
rDo rje mdzes ’od (θ)
U rgyan pa (ι)
Mon rtse pa (κ)
gTsang smyon He ru ka (λ)
Kun dga’ rin chen (μ)
dBang phyug rgyal mtshan (ν)
lHa btsun (ξ)
The Names of the Sesame Grinder
The Marpan Tradition
Notes to the Second Chapter
III — Who, When, and Where
Sahor
*Jagāõ
The First Years
The Apprenticeship
Caryāpā
Kambalapā
Nāgārjuna
Where Tilopā Met His First Gurus
Sukhasiddhi
Where Tilopā Met the Ḍākinī
The Received Doctrines
The Practice
Among the Ḍākinīs of Uḍḍiyāna
Back from Uḍḍiyāna
Tilopā’s Manifestations
With the Yogin
With the Tīrthika
With the Magician
With the Liquor-Selling Woman
With the Singer
With the Butcher
With the Materialist
With the Sorcerer
Tilopā’s Apotheosis
As a Manifestation of Śaṃvara
As Śaṃvara Himself
No Longer Monk: Tilopā and Nāropā
Tilopā’s Ultimate Apotheosis
Notes to the Third Chapter
IV — A Tilopan Bibliography
Indic Material
Tibetan Material
bsTan ’gyur
bDe mchog snyan brgyud
rNam thar and rNam mgur
gDams ngag mdzod
Tilopā and the bKa’ brgyud Curriculum
A Tentative Index of the Tilopan Corpus
Notes to the Fourth Chapter
Bibliography
Graeco-Roman Sources
Indic Sources
Chinese Sources
Tibetan Sources
Other Sources
Index