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Gopīnāth Kavirāj e la scienza solare

Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2019
This paper outlines the richness and complexity of Gopīnāth Kavirāj’s (1887-1976) contribution to the Indological studies, in particular in the field of Tantric studies.
Sara Bianchi
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The appearance of tantric monasticism in Nepal: a history of the public image and fasting ritual of Newar Buddhism, 980-1380

, 2020
Iain Sinclair
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The Persistence of Habit: Tantric Engagements with Dharmakīrti’s View of Yogic Perception

Journal of Contemplative Studies
Dharmakīrti’s view of yogic perception (yogipratyakṣa) and mental cultivation (bhāvanā) has generated a good deal of discussion—in Dharmakīrti’s text tradition, in the works of its various critics, and in the contemporary study of Buddhist philosophy ...
Davey K. Tomlinson
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Tantric practitioners from So nag village [PDF]

, 2010
Mar ngo’i tshes bcu (25th day of the month).Tantric practitioners from So nag village perform a prayer service from the Kar gling zhi khro scripture.This collection includes ten video files focusing on ritual practices and prayer services of some ...
Dhondup, Yangdon
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Tantra and the limits of female potential in the sexual response

Revista Científica Arbitrada de la Fundación MenteClara, 2019
This article explains explains some of the novel findings on female sexuality, ESR and prolonged–expanded orgasms, in comparison with the old Tantric and Taoist philosophies.
Ümit H. Sayin
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Anthropology of the Profane

Religions
Durkheimian anthropology has so insisted on the primacy of the sacred that one scarcely pauses to think on what role the profane may play in the study of religion.
Arpita Roy
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Vedic Predecessors of One Type of Tantric Ritual

Cracow Indological Studies, 2014
Verses 9–16 of the Parātriṃśikā prescribe a ritual application of the hr̥ dayabīja mantra ‘sauḥ’. In this case the mantra ‘sauḥ’ has different effects according to durations of the mental recitation of it.
Shingo Einoo
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Grounding Tantric Praxis in the Mahāyāna Meaning and Modes: [PDF]

, 2019
Linghui Zhang
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Vajrayāna Art and Iconography

Zygon, 2000
Iconographic imagery in the Indo‐Tibetan Buddhist Tantric (i.e., Vajrayāna) tradition is replete with polymorphic symbolic forms. Tantric texts themselves are multivalent, addressing astronomy, astrology, cosmology, history, embryology, physiology ...
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Medicinal Mandala: Potency in Spatiality [PDF]

, 2019
This article explores the complexities of accomplishing potency, nüpa (nus pa), within a Tibetan healing, rejuvenation, and longevity ritual practice known as ‘medicinal accomplishment,’ mendrup (sman sgrub).
Sehnalova, Anna
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