Research Catalog

Title

Homa variations : the study of ritual change across the Longue durée / edited by Richard K. Payne and Michael Witzel.

Publication

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]

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Additional Authors

• Payne, Richard Karl
• Witzel, Michael, 1943-

Description

xvi, 418 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• "The practice of making votive offerings into fire dates from the earliest periods of human history, and is found in many different religious cultures. 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 developed in early medieval India. Since that time it has been transmitted to Central and East Asia by tantric Buddhist practitioners. Today, Hindu forms are also being practiced outside of India as well. Despite this historical and cultural range, the homa retains an identifiable unity of symbolism and ritual form. The essays collected in Homa Variations provide detailed studies of a variety of homa forms, providing an understanding of the history of the homa from its inception up to its use in the present. At the same time, the authors cover 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 from such a broad perspective"--
• "Throughout human history, and in many religious cultures, offerings are made into fire--known in the tantric world as homa. This collection provides detailed studies of the homa from its inception up to the present, allowing for the study of ritual change over long periods of time, and across religious cultures"--

Series Statement

Oxford ritual studies

Uniform Title

Oxford ritual studies.

Subjects

• Homa (Rite)
• RELIGION / Comparative Religion
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Richard K. Payne -- Symbolic and Comparative Studies: The Ritual Interplay of Fire and Water in Hindu and Buddhist Tantras / Holly Grether; Buddhist Permutations and Symbolism of Fire / Tadeusz Skorupski; The Structure of Japanese Buddhist Homa / Musashi Tachikawa -- Textual Studies: The Vedic Homa and the Standardization of Hindu Pūjā / Timothy Lubin; Oblation, Non-conception, and Body: Systems of Psychosomatic Fire Oblation in Esoteric Buddhism in Medieval South Asia / Tsunehiko Sugiki; The Three Types of Fire Sacrifice According to Kāṇha's Śricakrasaṃvara-homavidhi / David B. Gray; Fire Rituals by the Queen of Siddhas: The Aparimitāyur-homa-vidhi-nāma in the Tengyur / Georgios T. Halkias; Homa Rituals in the Indian Kālacakratantra Tradition / Vesna A. Wallace; Ritual Subjects: Homa in Chinese Translations and Manuals from the Sixth through Eighth Centuries / Charles D. Orzech -- Descriptive Studies: Newar Buddhist Homa Ritual Traditions / Todd Lewis and Naresh Bajracarya; The Navarātra Homa: Liver, Enchantment, and Engendering the Divine Śakts / Nawaraj Chaulagain; Fire on the Mountain: The Shugendō Saitō Goma / Richard K. Payne; Agnihotra Rituals in Nepal / Michael Witzel.

Call Number

JFE 16-804

ISBN

• 9780199351589
• 0199351589
• 9780199351572
• 0199351570

LCCN

• 2015009162
• 40025398413

OCLC

910856250

Title

Homa variations : the study of ritual change across the Longue durée / edited by Richard K. Payne and Michael Witzel.

Publisher

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Oxford ritual studies

Oxford ritual studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Payne, Richard Karl, editor.

Witzel, Michael, 1943- editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40025398413

Research Call Number

JFE 16-804