Interpreting the 'Vajra Rosary': 'Truth and Method' Meets Wisdom and Method.

摘要

This essay, accompanied by the first full English translation of the Vajramala; or Vajra Rosary, one of the explanatory Tantras of the Buddhist Guhyasamaja, or Secret Community, Tantric system, and a partial translation of Alam&dotbelow;kakalasa's Commentary, sets out a novel hermeneutic method by which twenty-first century scholars of religion might approach the interpretation of the Tantra and other texts.