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Abodes of the vajra‑yoginīs: Mount Maṇicūḍa and Paśupatikṣetra as envisaged in the Tridalakamala and Maṇiśailamahāvadāna

European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, 2020
This study examines how the logic of localisation functions in Buddhist tantric literature and ritual as a powerful tool to convey knowledge and authoritative lineage via the immediacy of the manifest world. Literature composed in Newar (Nepāl Bhāṣā) and
Amber Moore
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Bodies of Knowledge: Bodily Perfection in Tantric Buddhist Practice

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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Invisibly Visible: Alan Glass’s Gnosopoetics

, 2023
Religious Studies Review, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 505-513, December 2023.
Kristoffer Noheden
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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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Tantra or Yoga. Clinical Studies, Part 2: Tantra

Revista Científica Arbitrada de la Fundación MenteClara
Several clinical studies show how exercises in Vedic traditions, such as Yoga, or Theravada or Mahayana Buddhism, as well as tantric practices, have a significant psychobiological impact.
Oscar R. Gómez
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TANTRA O YOGA. ESTUDIOS CLÍNICOS, 2ª PARTE: TANTRA

Revista Científica Arbitrada de la Fundación MenteClara, 2017
Varios estudios clínicos realizados muestran cómo las prácticas tántricas así como los ejercicios de las tradiciones védicas, como el yoga, o budistas theravada o mahayana, tienen un impacto psicobiológico significativo.
Oscar R. Gómez
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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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TANTRA O YOGA. ESTUDIOS CLÍNICOS, 3ª PARTE: COMPARATIVA

Revista Científica Arbitrada de la Fundación MenteClara, 2017
Varios estudios clínicos muestran cómo las prácticas tántricas y los ejercicios de las tradiciones védicas -como el yoga- o budistas theravada o mahayana tienen un impacto psicobiológico significativo.
Oscar R. Gómez
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Conserving the ‘Container’ of Tantric Secrecy: A Discussion with Western Śākta Practitioners

Religions, 2021
Secrecy has long limited the possibility of gaining emic insight into the spiritual experiences of tantric practitioners. By sharing reflections obtained via semi-structured interviews, the present article examines how a contemporary community of Western
Sophie-Anne Perkins
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The Unbecoming Ghost: Spectropolitics in the Making and Unmaking of BHU's Bhoot Vidya Ayurveda Certificate Program

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 2, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
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