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2022
Abstract The story is that of a narrator and an imaginary listener. The narrator tells him about his wife who longs to go back to Kashmir after ten years in exile, to see the children playing under mulberry trees. Then he tells him how Thokar Chand got a helper for them in Jammu. The name of the helper was Bodhraj. Bodhraj later on, like
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Abstract The story is that of a narrator and an imaginary listener. The narrator tells him about his wife who longs to go back to Kashmir after ten years in exile, to see the children playing under mulberry trees. Then he tells him how Thokar Chand got a helper for them in Jammu. The name of the helper was Bodhraj. Bodhraj later on, like
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2022
Abstract From congregational singing to reenactments of the ḍamburu drumming of Shiva, tantric auditory practices reflect a complex religious acoustemology. Sounds and songs in a variety of vernaculars have represented an important component of lived religion in tantric communities.
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Abstract From congregational singing to reenactments of the ḍamburu drumming of Shiva, tantric auditory practices reflect a complex religious acoustemology. Sounds and songs in a variety of vernaculars have represented an important component of lived religion in tantric communities.
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2023
Abstract This work provides an introduction to the Buddhist tantras, the scriptures of the tantric or esoteric Buddhist traditions that developed in India in the seventh century and became the scriptural basis for several Buddhist traditions, most notably Tibetan Buddhism and the Japanese Shingon traditions.
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Abstract This work provides an introduction to the Buddhist tantras, the scriptures of the tantric or esoteric Buddhist traditions that developed in India in the seventh century and became the scriptural basis for several Buddhist traditions, most notably Tibetan Buddhism and the Japanese Shingon traditions.
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2000
1. Tantra (sanskrit »Webkette, Gewebe; Lehrbuch«) bezeichnet im allgemeinen einen praktischen Weg, auf dem rituelle, korperliche und mentale Techniken angewendet werden, um ausergewohnliche Fahigkeiten (siddbi) oder die Befreiung von allen weltlichen Bindungen (mukti) zu Lebzeiten zu erlangen.
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1. Tantra (sanskrit »Webkette, Gewebe; Lehrbuch«) bezeichnet im allgemeinen einen praktischen Weg, auf dem rituelle, korperliche und mentale Techniken angewendet werden, um ausergewohnliche Fahigkeiten (siddbi) oder die Befreiung von allen weltlichen Bindungen (mukti) zu Lebzeiten zu erlangen.
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2022
The term “Śākta Tantra” (Śāktism) refers to a constellation of Tantric traditions of Asian goddess worship. Śākta Tantra is considered a branch of Hindu Tantrism, together with Śaivism and Vaiṣṇavism. This article is meant as a general introduction to Śākta Tantra, a web of esoteric religious traditions that have developed in the Indian subcontinent ...
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The term “Śākta Tantra” (Śāktism) refers to a constellation of Tantric traditions of Asian goddess worship. Śākta Tantra is considered a branch of Hindu Tantrism, together with Śaivism and Vaiṣṇavism. This article is meant as a general introduction to Śākta Tantra, a web of esoteric religious traditions that have developed in the Indian subcontinent ...
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2019
Abstract Belonging to an esoteric corpus of Buddhist texts known as the teachings of secret mantra (Skt. guhyamantra), the tantras of Vajrakīla have been carefully guarded through the centuries and handed down from teacher to disciple under a strictly ethical code of conduct.
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Abstract Belonging to an esoteric corpus of Buddhist texts known as the teachings of secret mantra (Skt. guhyamantra), the tantras of Vajrakīla have been carefully guarded through the centuries and handed down from teacher to disciple under a strictly ethical code of conduct.
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2011
È il tantrismo da intendersi come un movimento socio-religioso che ha fortemente caratterizzato tutta la civiltà indiana dal medioevo fino ai nostri giorni, oppure come una delle vette assolute del pensiero e della spiritualità universali, o forse solo come una sofisticata iniziazione alla trasgressione sessuale? Uno dei molti meriti di questo libro
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È il tantrismo da intendersi come un movimento socio-religioso che ha fortemente caratterizzato tutta la civiltà indiana dal medioevo fino ai nostri giorni, oppure come una delle vette assolute del pensiero e della spiritualità universali, o forse solo come una sofisticata iniziazione alla trasgressione sessuale? Uno dei molti meriti di questo libro
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Wizards and Kings, or “Tantra beyond the Tantras”
Abstract The Kathāsaritsāgara, examined in Chapter 4, narrates the pursuit of good fortune (artha), of pleasure (kāma) in the form of winning wives, and ultimately of felicity beyond this world, achieved in the form of immortality as a “wizard” or vidyādhara. Its milieu is heavily that of the third of the four varṇas, the vaiśyas, but itopenaire +1 more source
2013
AbstractThis chapter deals with vehicles 4-6, the so-called three “outer tantras": kriyā, upāya, and yoga tantra. Each of these various vehicles is treated under four main topics: (1) view, (2) meditation, (3) practice, and (4) result. The discussion of these vehicles ends with Rogben’s refutation of each.
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AbstractThis chapter deals with vehicles 4-6, the so-called three “outer tantras": kriyā, upāya, and yoga tantra. Each of these various vehicles is treated under four main topics: (1) view, (2) meditation, (3) practice, and (4) result. The discussion of these vehicles ends with Rogben’s refutation of each.
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