Manthanabhairava Tantra

(in Vorbereitung)Das Manthanabhairavatantra ist ein langes Tantra, das zum Pascimamnaya gehört.

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• The Manthanabkairavatantra is a lengthy Tantra belonging to the Pascimamnaya. It also calls itself caturvimsatisahasra, that is, a "book of 24,000 verses" and is in fact not much short of this size. The oldest dated manuscript traced so far was copied during the reign of Somesvara and is

dated N.S. 300, i.e., 1180 A.D.

• The most recent was copied during the reign of Viravikrama Saha and is dated Sam. 1897, i.e., A.D. 1841. Forty-one manuscripts, many of which are more than 150 folios long, are listed in Appendix C. One manuscript of a part of this Tantra is preserved in the Asiatic Society of Bengal. It is in Bengali script and was copied from a manuscript belonging to a monk in Bodhagaya dated N.S. 761, i.e., 1641 A.D.. It contains chapters 74-89 and is written on 199 folios of foolscap paper.
• Abgesehen von diesem ist kein nicht-nepalesisches Manuskript gefunden worden.

Der Text ist in vier Abschnitte aufgeteilt, von den drei als khanda bzeichnet werden. " Although a colophon of one of these sections states that this Tantra is divided into three parts,

• in actual fact it appears, on the basis of the descriptions in the catalogues, that they are not three but four.

These are listed below along with their approximate length:

1. Yogakhanda 4,500 Verse
2. Kumarikakhanda 6,000 Verse
3. Siddhakhanda 2,900 Verse
4. Navanityayagadhikara 4,300 Verse

Gesamt 17,700 Verse

In the Paratantra, the MBT is referred to as the "mahamanthana-satkaka"* which may be translated to mean the "Great Manthana (bhairavatantra) consisting of a group of six [thousand verses]" or also as

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The tantra is dedicated to the worship of the goddess Kubjika. Kubjika is here identified with Carcika

Although originally an Indian goddess, Kubjika is almost exclusively worshipped in the Kathmandu Valley, where her cult has been kept scrupulously secret by Newar initiates for centuries. Almost all the manuscripts of her Tantras and related literature have been found there. Kubjika is a powerful development of Malini, the principal goddess of the Trika Tantras and Kali of the Kashmiri Krama tradition. Her cult belongs to a chain of early Kaula systems that culminate with that of the goddess Tripura and so sheds considerable light on them.

• The Section concerning the Virgin Goddess of the Tantra of the Churning Bhairava The Manthanabhairavatantra is about 24,000 verses long and is divided into three sections (khanda).

The one edited and translated here is the Kumarikakhanda. Along with the Kubjikamata, the Manthanabhairavatantra is the most important and extensive Tantra dedicated to the worship of the goddess Kubjika. Although originally an Indian goddess, Kubjika is almost exclusively worshipped in the Kathmandu Valley, where her cult has been kept scrupulously secret by Newar initiates for centuries. Almost all the manuscripts of her Tantras and related literature have been found there. Kubjika is a powerful development of Malini, the principal goddess of the Trika Tantras and Kali of the Kashmiri Krama tradition. Her cult belongs to a chain of early Kaula systems that culminate with that of the goddess Tripura and so sheds considerable light on them.

Kubjika's unique historical importance is mirrored in the extraordinary richness of the inner, spiritual dimensions of her cult. These are explored in detail in the introduction to the edition and translation of the text with extensive references from mostly unpublished Kubjika Tantras and those of related schools. The work took close to two decades to produce. In this time numerous working editions of unpublished Tantras and related texts were prepared by the author with the help of a team of five trained assistants.

Binding 1: Introduction - Volume One:

3 Index der Übersetzung

• Manthanabhairavatantram Kumarikakhandah: The Section concerning the Virgin Goddess of the Tantra of the Churning Bhairava; 14 Volumes / Dyczkowski, Mark S.G. (Ed.)

* Inhalt  - Volume One of the Introduction
Kapitel 1: The Myth of the Goddess
Kapitel 2: The Empowering Command
Kapitel 3: Sacred Place and Inner Space

* Inhalt - Volume Two of the Introduction
Kapitel 4: The Goddess Kubjikaa Names, Forms and Multiple Identities
Kapitel 5: The Early Development of Kaulism and the Emergence of the Kubjika Tantras
Kapitel 6: The Teachers and Lineages of the Kubjika Tantras

* Inhalt - Volume Three of the Introduction
Kapitel 7: The Manthanabhairavatantra, origin structure and development
 
* Inhalt - Volume One of Text and Translation
Kapitel 1: Srinatha's Inquiry
Kapitel 2: The Response to the Inquiry
Kapitel 3: Daksa's Curse and Grace
Kapitel 4 : Concerning the Malinistavaraja
Kapitel 5: Srinatha's Consecration with the Command (ajtabhiseka)
Kapitel 6: The Pervasion of Srinatha's Sacred Seat of the Command (ajtapitha)
Kapitel 7: The Authority of the Goddess in the Venerable City of the Moon

* Inhalt - Volume Two of Text and Translation
Kapitel 8: The Extraction of the Vidya according to the Teaching Concerning the Meruprastara
Kapitel 9: The Consciousness of the Vidya according to its Divisions as Full and the Rest.
Kapitel 10: A Description of the Glory of the Vidya
Kapitel 11: The Way to Offer Libation (argha) and Repeat the Vidya
Kapitel 12: The Glory of the Vidya
Kapitel 13: Concerning the Destruction of Impurity
Kapitel 14: Concerning (Kaula) Conduct (carya)
Kapitel 15: About the Section (of the Scripture) Concerning (Kaula) Conduct (caryapada)
Kapitel 16: The Section Concerning the Vidya

* Inhalt - Volume Three of Text and Translation
Kapitel 17: The Venerable Sutra of the Lineage (srisantanasutra)
Kapitel 18: The Deposition of Malini
Kapitel 19: The Assembly of Sounds (sabdarasi)
Kapitel 20: Concerning the Triple Vidya
Kapitel 21: The Five Principles
Kapitel 22: Concerning Sodha
Kapitel 23: Concerning Tadgraha and the Samaya Vidya
Kapitel 24: The Casket of the Sixfold Deposition
Kapitel 25: The Fifty (Verses) concerning Kula
Kapitel 26: The Root Sutra and the Hymn to Maya
Kapitel 27: The Mandala of the Transmission (kramamandala) and the Mandala of the Teachers (gurumandala)
Kapitel 28: The Authority of the Triple Transmission
Kapitel 29: The Sutra of the Teaching concerning the Visualization of the Goddess's Form
Kapitel 30: The Prescribed way of Writing and Explaining the Scripture

* Inhalt - Volume Four of Text and Translation
Kapitel 31: The Initiation by Piercing (vedhadiksa)
Kapitel 32: The Characteristic Signs of Teachers and Disciples
Kapitel 33: Concerning the Initiation with Seed
Kapitel 34: The Teaching Concerning the Offering to the Fire
Kapitel 35: The Emanation of the Triple Division and its Authority
Kapitel 36: The Competence for Knowledge and Wisdom
Kapitel 37: The Practice of the Rule (samayacara)
Kapitel 38: The Root Sutra which is the Womb (yoni) of the Ocean of the Kula Tradition
Kapitel 39: Concerning the Pure Division (vimalabheda)
Kapitel 40: Concerning the Venerable Knowledge
Kapitel 41: The Fitness to Practice Yoga
Kapitel 42: The Sutra of the Sequence of Emanation
Kapitel 43: The Sutra of the Descent (of the Teachers) in the Four Ages
Kapitel 44: The Emanation of the Srikrama
Kapitel 45: The Casket of the Transmissions
Kapitel 46: The Glory of Emission (viksepadhikaramahatmya)
Kapitel 47: The Description of the Practice of the Rule

* Inhalt - Volume Five of Text and Translation
Kapitel 48: The Kramasutra
Kapitel 49: The Sutra of the Visualization of the (Goddess's) Form for the Inner Sacrifice
Kapitel 50: The Sutra of the Srikrama
Kapitel 51: The Sutra of the Meruprastara consisting of the Fifty Sacred Seats
Kapitel 52: The Sutra of the First Lord (Adinathasutra)
Kapitel 53: The Sutra of the Lineage (Santanasutra)
Kapitel 54: The Sutra of the Five Pranavas (Patcapranavasutra)
Kapitel 55: The Sutra of the Prescribed Procedure for the mandala to be Worshipped (aradhyamandalavidhanasutra)
Kapitel 56: The Sutra of the Sixteen Siddhas
Kapitel 57: The Plane of the Divine Current which is the Transmission beginning with the Transmental
Kapitel 58: The Explanation of the Root Sutra
Kapitel 59: The Plane of the Four Sacred Seats in the Ocean of the Foundation of the Mandala (khatikarnava)
Kapitel 60: The Transformations of the Plane of the Sacred Seats
Kapitel 61: The Planes of the Siddhas and the Goddesses
Kapitel 62: The Planes (of Realisation) of the Five Jewels
Kapitel 63: the Plane of the Hexad of the Command
Kapitel 64: The Plane of the Pentad and the Triad
Kapitel 65: The Category of the Self
Kapitel 66: The Octad of Kula according to the Tradition of the (goddess) Vakra
Kapitel 67: The Sutra Concerning the Sequence of Principles
Kapitel 68: The Sutra of the Compendium concerning Liberation
Kapitel 69: Conclusion

* Inhalt  - Volume Six
Concordance of Passages in the Kumarikakhanda traced in other sources
Tantric Sources Mentioned in the Kubjika Corpus
Table of Tantras Mentioned in the Kubjika Corpus
Bibliography
Index of Sanskrit Texts
Index of Sanskrit Names and Terms
English Index

Ref

• Manthanabhairavatantram Kumarikakhandah: The Section concerning the Virgin Goddess of the Tantra of the Churning , 14 Vols, Mark S.G. Dyczkowski (Ed.), Verlag: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts/D.K. Printworld (P) Ltd., New Delhi, India (2009)
• Author Name Mark S.G. Dyczkowski (Ed.)Title Manthanabhairavatantram Kumarikakhandah: The Section concerning the Virgin Goddess of the Tantra of the Churning , 14 Vols Binding HardcoverBook Condition New - Jacket Condition NewEdition First EditionSize 19 x 25 Cm Publisher New Delhi, India Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts/D.K. Printworld (P) Ltd. 2009 ISBN 8124604983 / 9788124604984 ISBN 10: 8124604983 ISBN 13: 9788124604984
• Hindu Tantric and Śākta Literature, Teun Goudriaan - Sanjukta Gupta, Harrassowitz, O; 1981, Sprache: Englisch, ISBN-10: 3447020911 ISBN-13: 978-3447020916