Studies On The Tantras
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Total Pages | : 162 |
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ISBN | : 9788185843360 |
This Book, A Compilation Of Articles Written By Recognized Scholars, May Help Remove Some Of The Misconceptions About Tantra, A Great And Useful Science Of Religion. The Study Is In 12 Parts - The Tantrika Mode Of Worship - Evolution Of The Tantras - Philosophy Of The Tantras - The Spiritual Heritage Of India: The Tantras - The Spirit And Culture Of The Tantras - Tantra As A Way Of Realization - Tantrika Culture Among The Buddhists - The Cult Of Buddhist Siddhacaryas - Sakti Cult In South India - Creation As Explained In The Tantras. Condition Ok.
Author | : Madhav Pundalik Pandit |
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Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Tantras |
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Author | : Prabodh Chandra Bagchi |
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Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Hindu literature |
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Author | : Katherine Anne Harper |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 079148890X |
Among the many spiritual traditions born and developed in India, Tantra has been the most difficult to define. Almost everything about it—its major characteristics, its sources, its relationships to other religions, even its practices—are debated among scholars. In addition, Tantrism is not confined to any particular religion, but is a set of beliefs and practices that appears in a variety of religions, including Hinduism and Buddhism. This book explores one of the most controversial aspects of Tantra, its sources or roots, specifically in regard to Hinduism. The essays focus on the history and development of Tantra, the art history and archaeology of Tantra, the Vedas and Tantra, and texts and Tantra. Using various disciplinary and methodological approaches, from history to art history and religious studies to textual studies, scholars provide both broad overviews of the beginnings of Tantra and detailed analyses of specific texts, authors, art works, and rituals.
Author | : Christian K. Wedemeyer |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2014-05-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0231162413 |
Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism fundamentally rethinks the nature of the transgressive theories and practices of the Buddhist Tantric traditions, challenging the notion that the Tantras were “marginal” or primitive and situating them instead—both ideologically and institutionally—within larger trends in mainstream Buddhist and Indian culture. Critically surveying prior scholarship, Wedemeyer exposes the fallacies of attributing Tantric transgression to either the passions of lusty monks, primitive tribal rites, or slavish imitation of Saiva traditions. Through comparative analysis of modern historical narratives—that depict Tantrism as a degenerate form of Buddhism, a primal religious undercurrent, or medieval ritualism—he likewise demonstrates these to be stock patterns in the European historical imagination. Through close analysis of primary sources, Wedemeyer reveals the lived world of Tantric Buddhism as largely continuous with the Indian religious mainstream and deploys contemporary methods of semiotic and structural analysis to make sense of its seemingly repellent and immoral injunctions. Innovative, semiological readings of the influential Guhyasamaja Tantra underscore the text’s overriding concern with purity, pollution, and transcendent insight—issues shared by all Indic religions—and a large-scale, quantitative study of Tantric literature shows its radical antinomianism to be a highly managed ritual observance restricted to a sacerdotal elite. These insights into Tantric scripture and ritual clarify the continuities between South Asian Tantrism and broader currents in Indian religion, illustrating how thoroughly these “radical” communities were integrated into the intellectual, institutional, and social structures of South Asian Buddhism.
Author | : Chakravarti |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9788186791196 |
The Tantras: What They Stand For; Antiquity Of Tantricism; Tantra Schools; Literature Of The Tantras, Tantric Form Of Worship And Tantric Deities, Kali Worship In Bengal; Cult Of Durga And Durga Worship In Bengal.
Author | : Chintaharan Chakravarti |
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Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Tantras |
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Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Tantras |
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Author | : Charles Orzech |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 1223 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004184910 |
This volume, the result of an international collaboration of forty scholars, provides a comprehensive resource on Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in their Chinese, Korean, and Japanese contexts from the first few centuries of the common era to the present.
Author | : Mark S. G. Dyczkowski |
Publisher | : Spotlight Poets |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9788186569429 |
The past thirty years have witnessed dramatic developmentsin the study of ¶gamic ’aivism in general. On the one handthere has been a substantial increase in the historical andanthropological data. On the other, access has been cleared tovast reserves of unedited and unpublished sources.This book is a collection of essays which document in theirown way the author s personal journey in these years throughparts of the ’aiva and, to some extent, the Vai !ava Tantras.This ground-breaking book includes the following chapters:Self-awareness, Own Being and Egoity; AbhÈvavÈda, theDoctrine of Non-being; The Sa`vitprakÈ a; The InnerPilgrimage of the Tantras; KubjikÈ, the Androgynous Goddess;The Cult of the Goddess KubjikÈ.Mark S.G. Dyczkowski is a renowned scholar in the fieldof Tantra. Living in India for over thirty years, he combines inhis books a Western academic base with deep Indian insight.