Funding confirmed for Early Tantra project
We are pleased to announce that funding for a major project in tantric studies has just been confirmed — ‘Early Tantra: Discovering the Interrelationships and Common Ritual Syntax of the Śaiva, Buddhist, Vaiṣṇava and Saura traditions’.
This project, a collaboration with the École française d’Extrême-Orient, directed on the French side by Dominic Goodall and on the German side by Harunaga Isaacson, and funded by the ANR (Agence Nationale de Recherche) and DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), aims to uncover connections between tantric systems through the study of a number of early sources. Texts to be edited include the Niśvāsatattvasaṃhitā, Brahmayāmala, the Nepalese Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa manuscript and the Trisamayarājatantra commentary. It will be carried out over the next three years.
• Please visit our Early Tantra project page for further information.