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, 2022 This is a populist essay which can also be seen as philosophy in praxes. The essay is more about the techne of preparing to become a Shakta Tantric than about the philosophy of Tantra.
Chattopadhyay, Subhasis
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Mastering Time: Astrology, Tantra, and the Onpo of Ladakh
Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and TransferDrawing on fieldwork in Ladakh, this article examines the tantric labors of the onpo (dbon po), an understudied ritual specialist who combines the roles of Tibetan astrologer (rtsis pa) and lay tantric practitioner (sngags pa). It argues that the onpo’s
Rohit Singh
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.Abstract I propose the concept of delomization, the process whereby a sign comes to be understood as a symbol. I term such signs delomes. With rhematization and dicentization, delomization completes the triplet that linguistic anthropologists derive from Charles Sanders Peirce's third trichotomy.
Urmila Nair
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Buddhist tantric thealogy? the genealogy and soteriology of Tārā [PDF]
, 2018 The-a-logy can be seen as a feminist religious subversion of (hetero)patriarchal theology. Thealogy stresses nurturing, motherhood and wisdom; identity with creation; the body and the embodied spiritual journey; the nature in female form, archetypes and ...
Scherer, B.
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Critical analysis of the Kularnava Tantra -Part 1- A foreword corrupted by repressed sexuality
Revista Científica Arbitrada de la Fundación MenteClaraThis article was written to promote academic research on the Kularnava Tantra without the bias introduced by the "forewords" and introductions of the English and Spanish versions, which led to confusion regarding the object of study known as Tantrism ...
Oscar R. Gómez
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A Pragmatics of Ritual: The Yoshida Goma at the Interface of Shintō and Shingon
Religions, 2021 Drawing on practices and teachings from Daoism, neo-Confucianism, and tantric Buddhism, Yoshida Kanetomo (1435–1511) created the system of Yuiitsu Shintō, also known eponymously as Yoshida Shintō, all the while making claims for Shintō as the world’s ...
Richard K. Payne
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Tantra or Yoga. Clinical Studies, Part 1: Yoga
Revista Científica Arbitrada de la Fundación MenteClaraSeveral clinical studies demonstrate how exercises from Vedic traditions, such as Yoga, or Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism, as well as tantric practices, have a significant psychobiological impact.
Oscar R. Gómez
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On Not Understanding Extraordinary Language in the Buddhist Tantra of Japan
Religions, 2017 The question motivating this essay is how tantric Buddhist practitioners in Japan understood language such as to believe that mantra, dhāraṇī, and related forms are efficacious.
Richard K. Payne
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Bliss beyond All Limit: On the Apabhraṃśa Dohā in Tantric Buddhist Texts
Religions, 2021 The Apabhraṃśa dohā is a literary medium from Indian antiquity, with early examples appearing in Kālidāsa’s plays around the 5th century and continuing in later Hindi-language Jain and Bhakti works in the early modern period.
Jackson Barkley Stephenson
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Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT One barrier to mental health and a common focus of psychotherapy is the tendency to identify with relentless, often self‐critical thinking that searches for faults, becomes easily distracted, and pulls individuals away from the present moment.
Barbara Carter
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