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Feeding the Enemy to the Goddess: War Magic in Śaiva Tantric Texts [PDF]
Religions, 2022 This article deals with the war magic as described in Sanskrit Śaiva tantric texts written between the 5th and the 12th Century A.D. This period marks a shift from the invocation of Aghora/Bhairava as the main war-helping god to the rituals invoking ...
Olga Serbaeva
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Bodies of Knowledge: Bodily Perfection in Tantric Buddhist Practice [PDF]
Religions, 2021 This essay explores conflicting attitudes toward the body in Buddhist literature, with a focus on the tantric Buddhist traditions of yoga and meditation, which advanced the notion that the body was an innately pure site for realization while nonetheless ...
David B. Gray
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Journal of Contemplative StudiesThe practice of Vajrayāna is predicated on a worldview different from that which frames classical Buddhist teachings, such as the Four Noble Truths. While classical theory and praxis are structured by the inexorability of dissatisfaction, suffering, and ...
Dominic D. Z. Sur
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Love me for the Sake of the World: “Goddess Songs” in Tantric Buddhist Maṇḍala Rituals [PDF]
Religions, 2020 The presence of Apabhraṃśa in tantric Buddhist texts has long been noted by scholars, overwhelmingly explained away as an example of “Twilight language” (saṃdhā-bhāṣā). However, when one looks closer at the vast number of Apabhraṃśa verses in
Jackson Stephenson
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Beyond mindfulness: Arousal-driven modulation of attentional control during arousal-based practices [PDF]
Current Research in Neurobiology, 2022 Here we report meditative techniques, which modulate attentional control by arousal-driven influences and not by monitoring continuous thought processes as during mindfulness-related practices.
Maria Kozhevnikov +4 more
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Religions, 2023 This paper is a continuation of an earlier study published by the current author dedicated to the virtually unexplored tantric Buddhist scholar of the phyi dar period, *Jñānākara (11th century), through the textual analysis of his masterpiece, the ...
Aleksandra Wenta
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Characteristics of Kundalini-Related Sensory, Motor, and Affective Experiences During Tantric Yoga Meditation. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2022 Traditional spiritual literature contains rich anecdotal reports of spontaneously arising experiences occurring during meditation practice, but formal investigation of such experiences is limited.
Maxwell RW, Katyal S.
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Tantric Ritual and Conflict in Tibetan Buddhist Society. The Cult of Yamāntaka
Lea, 2022 The article examines the employment of tantric ritual as a tool of conflict resolution in Tibetan Buddhist society. In particular, the analysis focuses on the cult of the tantric Buddhist deity Yamāntaka, who is often invoked in tantric ritual to ...
Aleksandra Wenta
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Ornament of Reality: Language Ideology in a Tantric Śākta Text
Religions, 2023 The Mahānayaprakāśa of Śitikaṇṭha is an understudied text within Kashmir Śaivism, notable for its rich description of the inner structure of consciousness vis-à-vis the body and the natural world, and esotericization of Left-Handed Tantric Practice ...
Jackson Barkley Stephenson
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Spiritual Materialism/ Material Spiritualism: Shakta Tantric Approaches to Matter
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2022 In opposition to ontological discourses that denigrate matter and uphold the superiority of the spirit, one can foreground the Shakta Tantric conceptualization of matter and spirit as interchangeable forces that inform the dynamics of the universe ...
Sudipta Chakraborty, Anway Mukhopadhyay
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