Tibetan Magic

Introduction, Cameron M. Bailey, Dongguk University, South Korea and Aleksandra Wenta, University of Florence, Italy Chapter 1: The Zla gsang be’u bum: A Compendium of ritual magic and sorcery, Amanda Nichole Brown, Florida State University, USA Chapter 2: Magical Results of the Rituals in the Tara-mula-kalpa’s Continuation Tantra, Susan Landesman, American Council of Learnt Societies Fellow, USA Chapter 3:The Vajrabhairavatantra: Materia Magica and Circulation of Tantric Magical Recipes, Aleksandra Wenta, University of Florence, Italy Chapter 4: The Magic that Lies Within Prayer: On Patterns of Magicity and Resolute Aspirations (smon lam), Rolf Scheuermann, Heidelberg University, Germany Chapter 5: The Yogin's Familiars: Protector Deities as Magical Guides, Cameron M. Bailey, Dongguk University, South Korea Chapter 6: Emic perspectives on the transubstantiation of words in Tibetan-script textual amulets, Valentina Punzi, University of Tartu, Estonia Chapter 7: The Magical Causality of Poison Casting and Cancer among Tibetan Communities of Gyalthang, Eric D. Mortensen, Guilford College, UK Chapter 8: Is there Magic in Gcod? An Expedition into (some of) the Complexities of Sadhana-Text Enactments, Nike-Ann Schröder, Humboldt University, Germany Chapter 9: Trainings for Sorcery, Magic, Mystic, Philosophy — for that which is called “the Great Accomplishment”: Alexandra David-Neel’s Written and Unwritten Tibetan Grimoires, Samuel Thévoz, University of Vienna, Austria Afterword, Conceputalizing the ‘magical’ Tibet and beyond, Nicolas Sihlè, Centre for Himalayan Studies, France Index