
Sanjukta Gupta (Gombrich)
Hinduism (Tantra, Vaiṣṇavism, Bhakti and Gender studies)
Curriculum vitae
1931 | born in Barisal (India) on March 13 |
1952 | MA Sanskrit, Calcutta University |
1958-1966 | lecturer in Sanskrit, Calcutta University and Jadavpur University |
1959 | Ph.D. Indian philosophy, Tagore’s Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan |
1967-1986 | senior lecturer Sanskrit, Indian religions and aesthetics, Utrecht University |
1972 | PhD under the supervision of J. Gonda, Utrecht University |
1986-present | teaching member of the Oriental Faculty, Oxford University, teaching (part time) Indian religions and philosophy to post graduate students |
Publications
1967 “The concept of the Jīva in Gauḍiya Vaiṣṇavism as compared with that of the Advaita Vedanta.” Research Journal of the departments of Sanskrit and Philosophy 1,1 (1966-1967), Jadavpur University, Calcutta. pp
1966 Studies in the philosophy of Madhūsudana Saraswatī, with a forew. by S. Bhaṭṭācharya, Calcutta: Sanskrit Pustak Bhandar. – PhD Viśva Bharati.
1971 “The Caturvyūha and the Viśākha-yūpa in the Pāñcarātra.” Adyar Library Bulletin 35,3/4: 189-204.
1972 Lakṣmī Tantra: a Pāñcarātra text, translation and notes, Leiden: Brill (Orientalia rheno-traiectina 15). – Also published as PhD thesis Utrecht; repr. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2000; 3 rd edition 2013.
1976 “Viṣvaksena the divine protector.” WZKS 20: 75-89.
1979 & Dirk Jan Hoens, Teun Goudriaan, Hindu tantrism, Leiden [etc.]: Brill (Handbuch der Orientalistik 2,4,2).
1981 & T. Goudriaan, Hindu Tantric and Śākta literature, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz (A history of Indian literature 2,2).
1983 “The changing pattern of Pāñcarātra initiation: a case study in the reinterpretation of ritual.” In: Ria Kloppenborg (ed.), Selected studies on ritual in the Indian religions: essays to D.J. Hoens, Leiden: Brill, pp. 69-91.
– “A monist’s love of God: bhakti in Madhusūdhana Sarasvatī.” In: Mukunda Madhava Sharma (ed.), Professor Krishna Kanta Handiqui felicitation volume, Guwahati, Assam, pp. 138-147.
1985 “Modern proza in het Bengali.” De Gids 148: 176-182.
1986 “From Bhakti to Prapatti – the theory of grace in the Pāñcarātra system.” In: W. Morgenroth (ed.), Sanskrit and World Culture, Berlin (Schriften zur Geschichte und Kultur des Alten Orients 18), pp. 537-542.
1986 & Richard F. Gombrich, “Kings, power and the Goddess.” South Asia Research 6: 123-137.
1987 & Emmie te Nijenhuis, Sacred songs of India: Dīkṣitar’s cycle of hymns to the goddess Kamalā, part I: Musicological and religious analysis, text and translation, Winterthur, Switzerland (Forum Ethnomusicologicum 3).
1988 “The Maṇḍala as an image of Man.” In: Richard F. Gombrich (ed.), Indian ritual and its exegesis, Delhi (Oxford University Papers on India 2,1), pp. 31-41.
1989 “The Pāñcarātra attitude to mantra.” In: Harvey P. Alper (ed.), Understanding mantras, Albany (SUNY series of Religious Studies), pp. 224-248.
1990 “Divine mother or cosmic destroyer: the paradox at the heart of the ritual life of Hindu women.” In: Alison Joseph (ed.), Through the devil’s gateway, women, religion and taboo, London (A Channel four book, SPCK), pp. 50-59.
1991 “A monist’s love of God: Madhusūdana Sarasvatī’s definition of bhakti.” In: Debabrata Sen Sharma and Manabendra Banerjee (eds), Prajñājyoti: professor Gopikamohan Bhattacharya commemoration volume, Kurukshetra, pp. 233-243.
– “The Buddha avatāra.” In: Sodo Mori et al. (eds), Studies in Buddhism and culture in honour of Professor Egacu Mayda, Tokyo, pp. 175-180.
– “Women in the Śaiva/Śākta ethos.” In: Julia Leslie (ed.), Role and rituals for Hindu women, London, pp. 193-209.
1992 “Empirical time and the Vyūhāntara Gods in the Pāṇcarātra.” In: A.W. van den Hoek, D.H.A. Kolff, M.S. Oort (eds), Ritual, state and history in South Asia: essays in honour of J.C. Heesterman, Leiden: Brill, pp. 164-178.
– “Yoga and antaryāga in Pāñcarātra.” In: T. Goudrian (ed.), Ritual and speculation in early Tantrism: studies in honor of André Padoux, Albany, N.Y. (SUNY series in Tantric studies), pp. 175-208.
1995 “Sarasvatī Vāc : the sacral word and the Supreme cosmic Goddess.” In: Kalyan Kumar Das Gupta Felicitation Volume, Calcutta, pp. 337-350.
– & Mineke Schipper, Een wenkbrauw als een wilgeblad: Aziatische spreekwoorden en zegswijzen over vrouwen, Baarn: Ambo.
1996 “Pṛthivī/bhūmi.” Kalātattvakośa, vol. 3, New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, pp. 363-399.
2000 “Lālan Fakir: the confluence of Islam and Hindi popular mysticism.” In: M.K. Gautam and G.H. Schokker (eds), Bhakti in current research 1982-85: proceedings of the third international conference on devotional literature in the New Indo-Aryan languages, Noordwijkerhout 1985, Lucknow (Kern Institute miscellanea 10), pp. 205-225.
– “The worship of Kālī according to the Toḍala Tantra.” In: David Gordon White (ed.), Tantra in Practice, Princeton (Princeton Readings in Religions), pp. 463-488.
– “The goddess, women and their rituals in Hinduism.” In: Mandakranta Bose (ed.), Faces of the feminine in ancient, medieval, and modern India, New York-Oxford OUP, pp. 87-105.
2003 “The domestication of a goddess: Caraṇa-tīrtha Kālīghāṭ, the Mahāpīṭha of Kālī.” In: Rachel Fell McDermott and Jeffrey J. Kripal (eds), Encountering Kālī: in the margins, at the center, in the west, Barkeley, University of California Press, pp. 60-79.
2006 Advaita Vedanta and Vaiṣṇavism: the philosophy of Madhusūdana Sarasvatī, London (Routledge Hindu Studies Series).
2009 “Once upon a time the Supreme Power: the theological rise and fall of Lakṣmī in Pāñcarātra scriptures.” In: Cynthia Ann Humes and Rachel Fell Mc.Dermott (eds), Breaking boundaries with the goddess: new directions in the study of Śāktism: essays in honor of Narendra Nath Bhattacharyya, New Delhi, pp. 15-33.
2013 The cosmic play of power: goddess, Tantra and women, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.
2018 “Lalitā, the graceful and enchanting goddess of Kāñcipuram.” In: Mandakranta Bose (ed.), The Goddess, Oxford, Oxford University Press (The Oxford History of Hinduism), pp. 65-77.