Variants of the Rudra Subjugation Myth: Contrasting Themes in the Legends of Mahākāla and Vajrabhairava (Transcript)

episode

Tibetan Graduate Studies Seminar not yet transcribed

▲ 0

Transcript

This episode hasn't been transcribed yet Upvotes decide what gets transcribed next — 0 so far. Sign in to upvote

Related

recent transcribed audio

Pretty Little Episode #110 26 min · 25 Sep 2026 · Handsome

Ireland collapse in Kosovo as Israel game looms 13 min · 25 Sep 2026 · Today with David McCullagh

Living Breakthrough-Minded | Joel Osteen 30 min · 25 Sep 2026 · Joel Osteen Podcast

4AM ET 09/25/2026 Newscast 3 min · 25 Sep 2026 · Fox News Hourly Update

The Week: Trump vs the Press, Meta’s AI Win, and the Turning Political Tide 22 min · 25 Sep 2026 · The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway

Gabrielle Lyon Part 2 1h 1m · 25 Sep 2026 · unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver

Report any issue

Source

Recorded11 Jan 2023

Publishermediapub.it.ox.ac.uk ↗

Handlerec:4910229

Show notes

Cameron Bailey's talk on wrathful deities and their myths While the Rudra/Maheśvara subjugation myth is well known in Tantric Studies there exist a great number of variant retellings of it in the Tibetan literary record which have largely been overlooked by scholarship. This presentation will discuss two cycles of less-well known versions of this centrally important tantric charter myth, one from the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, centring on a form of Mahākāla and the other from the Sarma tradition, focused on Vajrabhairava. I argue that these two versions of the myth in fact present very different, even radically opposing, theological worldviews.

Ask this episode

“What did the council decide on item 42?” — answered with the speaker and the moment.

Sign in