ERC Consolidator Grant · 2023
Monsoon Asia as the Nexus for the Transfer of Tantra along the Maritime routes
Tantra dominated the Hindu and Buddhist socio-religious landscape across much of southeastern Asia from ca. the 7th to the 13th century. Once perceived ambivalently by scholars, and often still misrepresented in global pop culture as a form of sexual practice, the study of Tantra has now become a burgeoning academic subfield. However, the impact of Tantra on the religio-cultural history of Asia is still underappreciated, and disciplinary limitations as well as the Area Studies paradigm, fragmenting Asia into discrete areas, hamper our global understanding of this translocal phenomenon. Transcending these boundaries, the project will study Tantra from the perspective of cultural contact…
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