Download or read book Interpreting the Vajra Rosary written by David R. Kittay and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay, accompanied by the first full English translation of the Vajramala or Vajra Rosary, one of the explanatory Tantras of the Buddhist Guhyasamaja, or Secret Community, Tantric system, and a partial translation of Alamkakalasa's Commentary, sets out a novel hermeneutic method by which twenty-first century scholars of religion might approach the interpretation of the Tantra and other texts.