Margherita Serena Saccone and Péter-Dániel Szántó, 2023
Tantra and Pramāṇa: A Study of the Sāramañjarī. Napoli: UniorPress / Wien: ÖAW, 2023. (305 p.) (download [open access])


Samantabhadra’s Sāramañjarī (ca. mid-9th century CE) is a commentary on Jñānapāda’s Samantabhadrasādhana (ca. late 8th century CE), a meditation manual of the Guhyasamājatantra. The book presents the first critical edition of the Sanskrit text as well as the first English translation of a long portion devoted to the logical justification of the practice of binduyoga. The book also contains a general introduction to the work and a philosophical introduction to its contents.