The Canon Of The Saivagama And The Kubjika Tantras Of The Western Kaula Tradition

Author : Mark S. G. Dyczkowski
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120805958
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Canon of the Śaivāgama and the Kubjikā Tantras of the Western Kaula Tradition written by Mark S. G. Dyczkowski and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1989 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABOUT THE BOOK:This book serves as an introductory study of Tantric Saivism in its original scriptural sources. It traces the features and content of the canon of the Saiva Tantras, making use of many unpublished manuscripts from Kashmiri Saiva author

Author : Mark S. G. Dyczkowski
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 9780585078458
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Canon of the Saivagama and the The Kubjika Tantras of the Western Kaula Tradition written by Mark S. G. Dyczkowski and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Douglas Renfrew Brooks
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226075693
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret of the Three Cities written by Douglas Renfrew Brooks and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1990-09-21 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The esoteric Hindu traditions of Tantrism have profoundly influenced the development of Indian thought and civilization. Emerging from elements of yoga and wisdom traditions, shamanism, alchemy, eroticism, and folklore, Tantrism began to affect brahmanical Hinduism in the ninth century. Nevertheless, Tantrism and its key historical figures have been ignored by scholars. This accessible work introduces the concepts and practices of Hindu Sakta Tantrism to all those interested in Hinduism and the comparative study of religion.

Author : Rama Prasad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781515193982
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nature's Finer Forces written by Rama Prasad and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is largely based on The Canon of the Saivagama and the Kubjika Tantras of the Western Kaula Tradition, an esoteric text written by Mark S. G. Dyczkowski. The author Rama Prasad is an excellent Sanskrit scholar who encapsulated the topic of Tattvas (building blocks of the Universe) into an easily understandable treatise.

Author : Loriliai Biernacki
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195327829
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Renowned Goddess of Desire written by Loriliai Biernacki and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2007-10-11 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of women and ideas of gender are fundamental components of all religious traditions. This book examines the representations of women within Tantra using a case study of a selection of Hindu Tantric texts from the 15th through 18th centuries in Northeast India.

Author : David Peter Lawrence
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791440582
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rediscovering God with Transcendental Argument written by David Peter Lawrence and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1999-04-29 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comparative philosophical study of the thought of the two principle theorists of monistic Kashmiri Shaivism, Utpaladeva and Abhinavagupta, and also formulates a conception of the nature of philosophy as a means of intercultural and interreligious dialogue.

Author : Madhav Pundalik Pandit
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN 13 : 9788120809734
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kulārṇava Tantra written by Madhav Pundalik Pandit and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 1999 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kularnava Tantra is perhaps the foremost Tantra of the Kaula School and is constantly cited as an authority in Tantric literature. It is worthy of close study by those who would understand the tenets and practice of the tradition of which it is a Sastra. It calls upon man to wake up to the rare privilege that has been given to him, e.g., human birth in which the being becomes conscious of himself and is offered a choice, a choice between stagnation and rapid progression towards his Godhead. He is asked to purify himself and told how to do it. In unambiguous terms he is told that a wine-drinker is different from the drinkers of ecstasy; the union of delight is between the ascending Shakti and the presiding Lord above, and not between man and woman. The Introduction by Arthur Avalon (Sir John Woodroffe) gives a concise outline of the work. Sri M.P. Pandit, who is a keen student of the Tantras and Vedas, has rendered the work in English in eleven chapters. The Readings are free transla-tions with annotations where necessary, omitting technical details but preserving the spirit and essential import of the original in his characteristically lucid style. The complete text is given in Devanagari after being duly edited by Taranatha Vidyaranya for those who wish to study the book in the original Sanskrit..

Author : Dr Louise Child
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409477649
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tantric Buddhism and Altered States of Consciousness written by Dr Louise Child and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role of altered states of consciousness in the communication of social and emotional energies, both on a societal level and between individual persons. Drawing from an original reading of Durkheimian social theorists (including Mauss, Hertz, and Hubert) and Jungian psychology, Louise Child applies this analysis to tantric Buddhist ritual and biographical material. She suggests ways in which dreams and visionary experiences (including those related to the 'subtle body') play an important and previously under-explored role in tantric understandings of the consort relationship.

Author : Constance Jones
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0816075646
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Hinduism written by Constance Jones and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated A to Z reference containing more than 700 entries providing information on the theology, people, historical events, institutions and movements related to Hinduism.

Author : Elaine M. Fisher
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520966295
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hindu Pluralism written by Elaine M. Fisher and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Hindu Pluralism, Elaine M. Fisher complicates the traditional scholarly narrative of the unification of Hinduism. By calling into question the colonial categories implicit in the term “sectarianism,” Fisher’s work excavates the pluralistic textures of precolonial Hinduism in the centuries prior to British intervention. Drawing on previously unpublished sources in Sanskrit, Tamil, and Telugu, Fisher argues that the performance of plural religious identities in public space in Indian early modernity paved the way for the emergence of a distinctively non-Western form of religious pluralism. This work provides a critical resource for understanding how Hinduism developed in the early modern period, a crucial era that set the tenor for religion's role in public life in India through the present day.