The History of Buddhist Thought c30.s1.t5.3

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Besides canonical works the following are important: *Matériaux pour servir à l’histoire de la déesse buddhique Tārā*, par G. de Blonay. Paris, 1895. *Adikarmapradīpa*. (In *Bouddhisme, études et matériaux*, par L. de la Vallée Poussin, 1898. This contains valuable studies on tantric rites, maithuna or sexual union, spells, and the relations of Tantra with Śaivism.) *Subhāsita-saṃgraha*. Edited by C. Bendall. Louvain, 1905. (The editor holds that this work explains the decay, decrepitude, and dotage of Buddhism as shown in the Tantra-literature. A more convincing account was given by Mm. Haraprasad Sastri. See the important account of his life and work given by Dr. N. N. Law in *IHQ*. ix, 1933, p. 307.) *Les chants mystiques de Kāṇha et de Saraha ; les Dohā-koṣa et les Caryā*, éd. et trad. par M. Shahidullah. Paris, 1928. (The author explains the “argot tantrique”, by which technical religious terms were applied in obscene senses. The best general treatment is by L. de la Vallée Poussin in *ERE*, art. “Tantrism”.) *The Post-Caitanya Sahajīā cult of Bengal*. By M. M. Bose. Calcutta, 1930. (A study of a modern tantric sect. The author has also published the Bengali texts of the sect in *Sahajiyā sāhitya*. Calcutta, 1932.)