| Publications In the last 26 years, Prof. Sanderson has published over 1,400 pages of articles covering Śaiva, Vaishnava, and Buddhist Tantra in South and Southeast Asia. A complete list follows, most recent first. Most items are downloadable as PDFs. New Work "Ritual for Oneself and Ritual for Others." In: Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual vol. II: Body, Performance, Agency, and Experience, edited by Angelos Chaniotis et. al. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010.
"Kashmir". In: Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Volume One: Regions, Pilgrimage, Deities, edited by Knut A. Jacobsen. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009. Handbuch der Orientalistik. Zweite Abteilung, Indien, vol. 22, pp. 99–126. Note: this version has nearly forty 'sticky notes' which correct the errors in the text as published, errors introduced in the editorial process. The original version of the article as written is here: The Hinduism of Kashmir.
"The Śaiva Age: The Rise and Dominance of Śaivism during the Early Medieval Period." In: Genesis and Development of Tantrism, edited by Shingo Einoo. Tokyo: Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo, 2009. Institute of Oriental Culture Special Series, 23, pp. 41-350. A handout that outlines the 2005 lecture upon which this paper is based and sets forth the hypothesis is here. “Atharvavedins in Tantric Territory: The Āngirasakalpa Texts of the Oriya Paippalādins and their Connection with the Trika and the Kālīkula, with critical editions of the Parājapavidhi, the Parāmantravidhi, and the *Bhadrakālī-mantravidhiprakarana.” In: The Atharvaveda and its Paippalāda Śākhā: Historical and Philological Papers on a Vedic Tradition, edited by Arlo Griffiths and Annette Schmiedchen. Aachen: Shaker Verlag, 2007. Geisteskultur Indiens: Texte und Studien, 11, Indologica Halensis, pp. 195-311.
“The Śaiva Exegesis of Kashmir.” In: Mélanges tantriques à la mémoire d’Hélène Brunner / Tantric Studies in Memory of Hélène Brunner,
edited by Dominic Goodall and André Padoux, Pondicherry: Institut
français d'Indologie / École française d’Extrême-Orient, 2007.
Collection Indologie 106, pp. 231–442 and (bibliography) pp. 551–582.
(Actual publication date 2007.)
Earlier Work
“The Lākulas: New evidence of a system intermediate between Pāñcārthika Pāśupatism and Āgamic Śaivism.” Ramalinga Reddy Memorial Lectures, 1997. In: The Indian Philosophical Annual 24 (2006), pp. 143-217.
“Religion and the State: Śaiva Officiants in the Territory of the Brahmanical Royal Chaplain (with an appendix on the provenance and date of the Netratantra).” In: Indo-Iranian Journal 47 (2004), pp. 229-300. (Actual publication date: 2005.)
“A Commentary on the Opening Verses of the Tantrasāra of Abhinavagupta.” In Sāmarasya: Studies in Indian Arts, Philosophy, and Interreligious Dialogue in Honour of Bettina Bäumer, ed. Sadananda Das and Ernst Fürlinger. New Delhi: D.K. Printworld (2005), pp.89-148.
“The Śaiva Religion Among the Khmers, Part I.” In: Bulletin de l'Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient, 90-91 (2003-2004), pp. 349-463.
“Remarks on the Text of the Kubjikāmatatantra.” In: Indo-Iranian Journal 45, (2002), pp. 1-24.
“History through Textual Criticism in the study of Śaivism, the Pañcarātra and the Buddhist Yoginītantras.” In: Les Sources et le temps. Sources and Time: A Colloquium, Pondicherry, 11-13 January 1997, edited by François Grimal. Publications du département d'Indologie 91. Pondicherry: Institut Français de Pondichéry/École Française d'Extrême-Orient (2001), pp. 1-47.
“Meaning in Tantric Ritual.” In Essais sur le Rituel III: Colloque du Centenaire de la Section des Sciences religieuses de l'École Pratique des Hautes Études, edited by A.-M. Blondeau and K. Schipper. Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études, Sciences Religieuses, Volume CII. Louvain-Paris: Peeters (1995), pp. 15-95.
“Vajrayāna: Origin and Function.” In: Buddhism into the Year 2000. International Conference Proceedings, Bangkok and Los Angeles: Dhammakāya Foundation (1995), pp. 89-102.
“The Sarvāstivāda and its Critics: Anātmavāda and the Theory of Karma.” In: Buddhism into the Year 2000. International Conference Proceedings, Bangkok and Los Angeles: Dhammakāya Foundation (1995), pp. 33-48.
Conférences de M. Alexis Sanderson, Directeur d’études associé. In: Annuaire, Résumés des conférences et travaux, École pratique des Hautes Études, Ve Section—Sciences Religieuses, XCIX (1990–91), pp. 141–144. (Actual publication date: 1993.) A previously unpublished eight-page English summary of the lectures, which constitutes a good introduction to basic issues in the study of Śaivism, is here. “The Visualization of the Deities of the Trika.” In L'Image Divine: Culte et Méditation dans l'Hindouisme, edited by A. Padoux. Paris: Éditions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (1990), pp. 31-88.
“Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions.” In The World's Religions, edited by S. Sutherland, L. Houlden, P. Clarke and F. Hardy. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul (1988), pp. 660-704. Reprinted in The World's Religions: The Religions of Asia, edited by F. Hardy. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul (1990), pp. 128-72.
“Śaivism in Kashmir.” In: The Encyclopedia of Religion, edited by Mircea Eliade. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, volume 13 (1987), pp. 16–17. “Trika Śaivism.” In: The Encyclopedia of Religion, edited by Mircea Eliade. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, volume 13 (1987), pp. 15–16. “Krama Śaivism.” In: The Encyclopedia of Religion, edited by Mircea Eliade. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, volume 13 (1987), pp. 14–15. “Abhinavagupta.” In: The Encyclopedia of Religion, edited by Mircea Eliade. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, volume 1 (1987), pp.8–9. Reviews Review of: Paul Eduardo Muller-Ortega, The Triadic Heart of Śiva: Kaula Tantricism in the Non-dual Shaivism of Kashmir, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989. In: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 53 (1990), pp. 354–357. Review of: N.R. Bhatt, Matangapārameśvarāgama (Kriyāpāda, Yogapāda et Caryāpāda), avec le commentaire de Bhatta Rāmakantha: Édition critique, Publications de l’Institut Français d’Indologie 65, Pondicherry, 1982; Idem: Rauravottarāgama: Édition critique, introduction et notes, Publications de l’Institut Français d’Indologie 66, Pondicherry, 1983. In: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 48 (1985), pp. 564–568. Review of: Michel Hulin, Mrgendrāgama: sections de la doctrine et du yoga, avec la vrtti de Bhattanārāyana-kantha et la dīpikā d’Aghoraśivācārya. Traduction, introduction et notes, Publications de l’Institut Français d’Indologie 63, Pondicherry, 1980. In: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
46 (1983), pp. 161–162. Review of: Lilian Silburn, Śivasūtra et Vimarśinī de K.semarāja. (Études sur le Śivaïsme du Cachemire, École Spanda.) Traduction et introduction, Publications de l’Institut de Civilisation Indienne 47, Paris, 1980. In: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 46 (1983), pp. 160–161. | | Forthcoming Publications The Śaiva Age, forthcoming in the Groningen Oriental Series.
Religion and the State: Initiating the Monarch in Śaivism and the Buddhist Way of Mantras. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. Ethno-Indology, Heidelberg Studies in South Asian Rituals 2.
Śaivism and Brāhmanism in the Early Medieval Period Expanded version of a text delivered as the 14th Gonda Lecture on 24 November 2006. To be published by the Gonda Foundation.
Handouts from lectures This new sections features handouts from Prof. Sanderson's lectures, which constitute very useful summaries of data, outlines of arguments, and citations from key primary sources.
Tantric Saiva Sources and Models in Medieval Jain Practice, Lecture at the University of Leiden, February 2011. A recording of the lecture is available here.
Lecture from Chicago, March 2010. NOTE: Audio link, not a handout.
The History of Hinduism in Kashmir: Lecture at the University of Hamburg, April 2010. 13-page handout.
The Influence of Śaivism on Pāla Buddhism: Lecture at the University of Toronto at Mississauga, February 2010. Nine-page handout.
Tantric Saivism and Caste: Lecture at the University of Vienna, June 2009. 12-page handout.
How Buddhist is the Herukābhidhānatantra?: Lecture at the University of Vienna, June 2009. Ten-page handout.
The Niśvāsatattvasamhitā and its Place in the History of Śaiva Literature: Lecture at the Second International Workshop on Early Tantra, January 2007. Eight-page handout.
Initiating the Monarch: Lecture at Jinbunken, Kyoto, September 2006. Seven-page handout.
The Proceedings of the International Conference on Esoteric Buddhist Studies, Kōyasan, September, 2006. Handout from the lecture here.
Did post-Atimargic Śaivism transform the Śaiva temple cult?: Negative evidence from 7th-century Cambodia and the earliest Pratisthatantras. Lecture at the University of Pennsylvania, February 2005. Six-page handout.
Initiating the Monarch: The Adaptation of a Śaiva Practice for the propagation of Esoteric Buddhism in India, Inner Asia, and the Far East. Lecture at the University of Tokyo, December 2004. Five-page handout. An Introduction to Śaivism: Lecture at the University of Kyoto, December 2004. Ten-page handout. Was the ritual system of the Pāncarātrikas reconfigured along Śaiva lines? Evidence of the influence of middle-period Saiddhāntika Saivism on the earliest surviving Pāncarātrika Samhitās. Lecture at the Vienna Symposium, December 2003. 13-page handout. The Earliest Surviving Śaiva Guides to Ritual: the unpublished paddhatis of Brahmaśambhu and Bhojadeva and the propagation of a standardized Saiddhāntika System. Lecture at the Round Table on South Asian Rituals, Heidelberg, November 2003. | |