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Modern Transformations of sādhanā as Art, Study, and Awareness: Religious Experience and Hindu Tantric Practice [PDF]
Religions, 2019 “My first raising of the kuṇḍalinī was hearing Ma [her teacher] speak about art.„ The experience of the awakening of śakti within practitioners in contemporary cultures occurs both in traditional religious settings and within novel ...
Jeffrey C. Ruff
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Possible Selves, Body Schemas, and Sādhana: Using Cognitive Science and Neuroscience in the Study of Medieval Vaiṣṇava Sahajiyā Hindu Tantric Texts [PDF]
Religions, 2014 In recent decades, historians of religions have turned to, and developed, entirely new methodologies for the study of religion and human consciousness.
Glen Alexander Hayes
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Philological Study of Several Old Uighur Tantric Manuscripts Recently Unearthed from Tuyuq, Xinjiang [PDF]
Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 2022 Among the recent archaeological finds in Tuyuq are several Old Uighur texts related to Tantric practices in the cave monasteries in the Mongol time. A fragment from Cave 24 preserves an unidentified text related to the Mahākāla rites, which has not been attested before. A fragment from Cave 54
Fu, Ma, Xia, Lidong
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The Young Goddess Who Dances through the Ordinariness of Life―A Study on the Tantric Traditions of Kerala [PDF]
Religions, 2022 Drawing on both ethnographic and literary sources, this paper indicates that initiations into the mantra of Bālā are essential rites of passage for various Tantric communities. We focus on two previously unstudied texts: Bālāviṃśati stotra (“Twenty Verses on the Bālā Goddess”), a popular eulogy sung on festive occasions in Keralan temples, and ...
Maciej Karasinski-Sroka +1 more
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Femininity in Tantric Buddhism: A Study of Sanmatrananda’s Nastik Panditer Bhita
Litinfinite Journal, 2020 Femininity is a part and parcel of various religious practices since time immemorial. Tantric Buddhism is one such religion that gives equal importance to its male and female practitioners. The honour and respect that women enjoyed in this religious sphere has been reflected in the content of the Bengali novel NastikPanditerBhita (2017) by ...
Surapriya Chakraborty
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Subversive Sainthood and Tantric Fundamentalism: An Historical Study of Tibet's Holy Madmen [PDF]
, 2017 This dissertation is an historical study of Tibetan Buddhists generally referred to as "madmen" (smyon pa), whose "madness" carries a positive valuation more often than a negative one. Technically they are referred to as "mad siddhas" (grub thob smyon pa) or "mad yogis" (rnal 'byor smyon pa). This study seeks to uncover the purpose behind the eccentric
David Michael DiValerio
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TANTRIC SYMBOLISM AND ITS RELEVANCE IN HINDUISM: A STUDY OF CANDI SUKUH ON MOUNT LAWU
Vidyottama Sanatana: International Journal of Hindu Science and Religious StudiesCandi Sukuh, located on the slopes of Mount Lawu, is a late Majapahit monument that prominently displays Tantric symbolism. Its terraced pyramid architecture, lingga–yoni reliefs, and erotic iconography reveal the dominance of Tantric teachings in the candi’s cosmological narrative.
null Sulastri, null Marsono
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Vidyottama Sanatana: International Journal of Hindu Science and Religious StudiesThis study aims to investigate the ontological status of God in Calon Arang Manuscripts and interpret it metaethically. Calon Arang, as an original Tantric literary work from the Nusantara's ancestors, is an interesting subject to examine in terms of its ontological view of God and the ethical implications that arise from it.
Galuh Nur Fattah +3 more
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Transactions of the Architectural Institute of Japan, 1983 YOSHIHISA SAWANOBORI
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Three studies in non-tantric Buddhist cult forms
, 1975 This thesis attempts to present three to present three separate but related bodies of material which might contribute towards the eventual establishment of a new basic descriptive category in the field of Buddhist Studies: non-trantric pūjā. The first part deals with a previously unacknowledged form of the relic-cult; the second, with an equally ...
Gregory Schopen
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