{"id":2496,"date":"2023-11-29T17:36:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T00:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/ccs\/?p=2496"},"modified":"2023-11-29T17:36:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T00:36:55","slug":"professor-paul-donnelly-presented-at-the-51st-annual-conference-in-south-asia-in-madison-wisconsin-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-comparative-cultural-studies\/professor-paul-donnelly-presented-at-the-51st-annual-conference-in-south-asia-in-madison-wisconsin-in-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Paul Donnelly presented at the 51st Annual Conference in South Asia in Madison, Wisconsin in October"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Professor of the Comparative Study of Religions Dr. Paul Donnelly presented a paper, \u201cThe Buddhist Goddess Kurukull\u0101 and her Rituals of Subjugation\u201d at the 51st Annual Conference in South Asia in Madison, Wisconsin last month.<\/p>\n

Abstract:\u00a0The tantric Buddhist goddess Kurukull\u0101 is perhaps the most important of the tantric deities of subjugation (va\u015bya, va\u015b\u012bkara\u1e47a). Kurukull\u0101 has been propitiated across the tantric Buddhist world and is especially important in Tibetan cultural areas, with all four of the major sects practicing her rituals. There is a tantra devoted to her in the Tibetan Kangyur in the Anuttarayogatantra collection and she is mentioned in other major tantras such as Hevajra and Ca\u1e47\u1e0damah\u0101ro\u1e63a\u1e47a. There are nineteen texts on her in the S\u0101dhanam\u0101la\u00a0 and numerous s\u0101dhanas composed by Tibetan masters of various sects. Despite this, Kurukull\u0101 has received relatively little scholarly attention and none of the work that has been done has engaged with the root tantra, the \u0100ryat\u0101rakurukull\u0101kalpa. This project starts with a close reading of this text and the s\u0101dhana\u2019s in the S\u0101dhanam\u0101la to establish the mythology, rites, and iconography of the forms of Kurukull\u0101. Analysis will be undertaken with an eye to investigating similarities and differences between Kurukull\u0101\u2019s rites, mantras, and iconography with parallels in \u015a\u0101kta rites of subjugation and love magic, such as the early cults of the Nity\u0101 goddesses and Lallit\u0101\/Tripurasundar\u012b. This paper will be a contribution to the understanding of an understudied tantric Buddhist goddess, make progress toward a better comparative knowledge of Buddhist and \u015a\u0101kta\/\u015aaiva tantra, and contribute to the growing body of scholarship of tantra, sexuality, and gender.<\/p>\n

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Professor of the Comparative Study of Religions Dr. Paul Donnelly presented a paper, \u201cThe Buddhist Goddess Kurukull\u0101 and her Rituals of Subjugation\u201d at the 51st Annual Conference in South Asia in Madison, Wisconsin last month. Abstract:\u00a0The tantric Buddhist goddess Kurukull\u0101 is perhaps the most important of the tantric deities of subjugation (va\u015bya, va\u015b\u012bkara\u1e47a). Kurukull\u0101 has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11,23,3],"tags":[5,20,17],"class_list":["post-2496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asian-studies","category-comparative-study-of-religions","category-faculty-news","category-faculty-research","tag-ccs","tag-naucal","tag-nauccs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-comparative-cultural-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-comparative-cultural-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-comparative-cultural-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-comparative-cultural-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-comparative-cultural-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-comparative-cultural-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2498,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-comparative-cultural-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions\/2498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-comparative-cultural-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-comparative-cultural-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-comparative-cultural-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}