This fully hybrid conference and webinar will take place at Harris Manchester College at the University of Oxford (UK). Framed as a collaboration between ERC MANTRATANTRAM and ERC MANTRAMS, it will approach territorial deities and/as Nāgas in a comparative fashion as markers of a phenomenon that can be regarded as an integral feature of the Tantra-influenced cultures of Monsoon Asia, and which is intertwined in textual and non-textual traditions, as well as written and oral manifestations of mantras and supernatural efficacious practices (‘magic’, and management of such entities) by ritual specialists—whether exponents of Indic, Sinitic, or animistic religions. In so doing, it acknowledges the inseparable interconnectedness with, and profound impacts that territorial deity cosmologies have had on, Tantrism—both Śaiva and Buddhist.
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