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Interpreting the Vajra Rosary: Truth and Method Meets Wisdom and Method

Abstract

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This essay, accompanied by the first full English translation of the Vajramala or Vajra Rosary, one of the explanatory Tantras of the Buddhist Guhyasamaja, or Secret Community, Tantric system, and a partial translation of Alamkakalasa's Commentary, sets out a novel hermeneutic method by which twenty-first century scholars of religion might approach the interpretation of the Tantra and other texts.

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  • Kittay, David R.

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English

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oai:academiccommons.columbia.edu:10.7916/D8PC38RB

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Kittay, David R.. Interpreting the Vajra Rosary: Truth and Method Meets Wisdom and Method. 2011. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8PC38RB