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Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2003

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[squf ] Jensine Andresen [Ph.D. 1997]

Kālacakra, “The Wheel of Time”

This dissertation investigates Kālacakra, “The Wheel of Time,” a tantric system of multivalent text and elaborate ritual. Utilizing an interdisciplinary methodology, I describe Kālacakra's manifestations in India, Tibet, and the West, focusing on social, psychological, economic, and political factors that have propelled this tradition forward. Fundamentally interested in patterns of cultural and religious transmission, I examine the manner in which potent themes inherent to both textual and ritual Kālacakra—threats of apocalypse, projections of utopia, pronouncements of curse, promises of fulfillment, and the aesthetic resonance of melothesia—have made this tradition adaptable to changing historical and cultural contexts.

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Harvard Theological Review , Volume 95 , Issue 4 , October 2002 , pp. 453 - 478
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Harvard Theological Review periodically includes summaries of Harvard doctoral dissertations recently accepted in the Th.D. and Ph.D. programs under the Committee on the Study of Religion, a standing committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences with membership from both that faculty and the Faculty of the Divinity School. Relevant theses from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC) are also included.Dissertations submitted for the Th.D. are deposited in the Andover-Harvard Theological Library at the Divinity School. All the dissertations summarized in this section are available from University Microfilms, Inc.