Homa variations the study of ritual change across the longue durée 1st Edition by Richard K Payne, Michael Witzel ISBN 0199351589 978-0199351589

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ISBN 10:  0199351589 

ISBN 13: 978-0199351589

Author: Richard K. Payne, Michael Witzel

Found in many different religious cultures, the practice of making votive offerings into fire dates back to the earliest periods of human history. Throughout the tantric world, this kind of ritual offering practice is known as the homa. With roots in Vedic and Zoroastrian rituals, the tantric homa was formed in early medieval India. Since that time tantric Buddhist practitioners transmitted it to East and Central Asia, and more recently to Europe and the Americas. Today, Hindu forms of the homa are being practiced outside of India as well.
Despite this historical and cultural range, the homa retains an identifiable unity of symbolism and ritual form. Homa Variations is the first volume to provide a series of detailed studies of a variety of homa forms. This collection of essays provides an understanding of the history of the homa from its inception up to its use in the present. The book also covers homa practice throughout a wide range of religious cultures, from India and Nepal to Tibet, China, and Japan. The theoretical focus of the collection is the study of ritual change over long periods of time, and across the boundaries of religious cultures. The identifiable unity of the homa allows for an almost unique opportunity to examine ritual change with such a broad perspective.

Table of contents: 

Symbolic and Comparative Studies

1. The Ritual Interplay of Fire and Water in Hindu and Buddhist Tantras

2. Buddhist Permutations and Symbolism of Fire

3. The Structure of Japanese Buddhist Homa

Textual Studies

4. The Vedic Homa and the Standardization of Hindu Pūjā

5. Oblation, Non-conception, and Body: Systems of Psychosomatic Fire Oblation in Esoteric Buddhism in Medieval South Asia

6. The Three Types of Fire Sacrifice According to Kāṇha’s Śrīcakrasaṃvara-homavidhi

7. Fire Rituals by the Queen of Siddhas: The Aparimitāyur-homa-vidhi-nāma in the Tengyur

8. Homa Rituals in the Indian Kālacakra-tantra Tradition

9. Ritual Subjects: Homa in Chinese Translations and Manuals from the Sixth through Eighth Centuries

Descriptive Studies

10. Newar Buddhist Homa Ritual Traditions

11. The Navarātra Homa: Liver, Enchantment, and Engendering the Divine Śaktis

12. Fire on the Mountain: The Shugendō Saitō Goma

13. Agnihotra Rituals in Nepal

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