Chattopadhyay, Subhasis: The Trans-Sectarian Genesis of Yogic and Tantric Traditions: A Philological and Physiological Reconstruction of Buddhist Derivation from Hindu Paradigms

_Esamskriti_. 2026"[T]he vast repositories of Sanskrit Hindu literature [continue to be dismissed] as mythological, degenerate, or historically unreliable. This colonial gaze effectively stripped the plural religious history of South Asia of its foundational Hindu layers, projecting a false autonomy onto Buddhist developments. However, contemporary philological, ethnographic, and textual analyses reveal a radically different genealogy. The esoteric practices of Vajrayāna Buddhism, the complex vi