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Practice in the Tantric Religion of Śiva
The Oxford History of Hinduism, 2020By the early medieval period the religion focused on Śiva was on the rise politically, socially, and culturally, coming to dominate the South Asian context and beyond to South East Asia.
G. Flood
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2023
Dr. Sthaneshwar Timalsina Founder , Vimarsha Foundation Ācārya Dr. Sthaneshwar Timalsina is the founder of Vimarsha Foundation, a modern school (gurukula) for teaching and reflecting on the ancient wisdom of r̥ṣis and siddhas. Hailing from Nepal, he was traditionally trained, consecrated with sarvādhikāra-sarvasāmrājya dīkṣā and authorized as ...
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Dr. Sthaneshwar Timalsina Founder , Vimarsha Foundation Ācārya Dr. Sthaneshwar Timalsina is the founder of Vimarsha Foundation, a modern school (gurukula) for teaching and reflecting on the ancient wisdom of r̥ṣis and siddhas. Hailing from Nepal, he was traditionally trained, consecrated with sarvādhikāra-sarvasāmrājya dīkṣā and authorized as ...
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Bhutan, the last of the Himalayan Kingdoms, started to capture global attention a few decades ago: for its Shangri-La like nature and culture; for its concept of “Gross National Happiness” (GNH); a...
W. Drechsler
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Bhutan, the last of the Himalayan Kingdoms, started to capture global attention a few decades ago: for its Shangri-La like nature and culture; for its concept of “Gross National Happiness” (GNH); a...
W. Drechsler
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2019
Bhutan’s unique Buddhist-based democracy and economy provides an authentic basis for theoretical and empirical comparison with democracies and economies founded on liberal, Enlightenment principles. Bhutanese Buddhist and Western liberal conceptualizations of the individual “self,” “human nature,” and “the pursuit of happiness”—the building blocks of ...
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Bhutan’s unique Buddhist-based democracy and economy provides an authentic basis for theoretical and empirical comparison with democracies and economies founded on liberal, Enlightenment principles. Bhutanese Buddhist and Western liberal conceptualizations of the individual “self,” “human nature,” and “the pursuit of happiness”—the building blocks of ...
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2004
AbstractThis book provides accurate, accessible translations of three classics of medieval Indian Buddhist mysticism: the “couplet-treasuries” of the great tantric masters Saraha, Kanha, and Tilopa. Since their composition around 1000 CE, these poems have exerted a powerful influence on spiritual life, as well as poetry and song, in India, Nepal, and ...
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AbstractThis book provides accurate, accessible translations of three classics of medieval Indian Buddhist mysticism: the “couplet-treasuries” of the great tantric masters Saraha, Kanha, and Tilopa. Since their composition around 1000 CE, these poems have exerted a powerful influence on spiritual life, as well as poetry and song, in India, Nepal, and ...
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Where is the tantric mainstream? Discussions with a Bengali Brahmin god-maker in Kolkata
, 2020The idea of Hindu Tantra as an esoteric, transgressive, or otherwise fringe practice has been revised to account for a ‘tantric mainstream’ in Indian religious life.
J. Bradbury
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Abstract This introductory chapter addresses ongoing academic debates regarding the origins and earliest forms of tantra, as well as defining it and methodologies for its study. Did it begin as a movement within Hinduism, or Buddhism, or perhaps in some less-documented “pre-tantric” traditions, and what were the interactions between ...
Richard K. Payne, Glen A. Hayes
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Richard K. Payne, Glen A. Hayes
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The Healer’s Dharma: Interfacing Dharma and Healing from Śākta-Tantric Perspectives
Journal of Dharma Studies, 2023Sudipta Chakraborty, Anway Mukhopadhyay
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Anthropological Quarterly, 2003
Reconstructing Tantric Sex Andrea Custodi George Washington University David Gordon White. 2003. The Kiss of the Yogini: "Tantric Sex" in its South Asian Context. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. I smile to myself as I think of a modern-day self-avowed Tantric enthusiast, maybe somewhere in California, cruising Amazon.com looking for more readings
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Reconstructing Tantric Sex Andrea Custodi George Washington University David Gordon White. 2003. The Kiss of the Yogini: "Tantric Sex" in its South Asian Context. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. I smile to myself as I think of a modern-day self-avowed Tantric enthusiast, maybe somewhere in California, cruising Amazon.com looking for more readings
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