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Study of Nadi’s in Tantric Literature and Their Relation to Neurons
2021In the Rig-veda, the word "nadi" signifies "stream." It is important to understand the term "Stream," which underpins the entire Nadi concept. In other terms, every channel through which energy flows is referred to as Nadi. Tantra's artistic side has its own set of rules.
K. V. Mini, H. H. Awasthi
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The Oxford Handbook of Tantric Studies
2022Abstract Since the earliest encounters between tantric traditions and Western scholars, tantra has posed a challenge. Representation of tantra has tended to emphasize the antinomian, decadent aspects, which, as attention-grabbing as they were for Western audiences, hampered the study of the field.
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Philological Study of Several Old Uighur Tantric Manuscripts Recently Unearthed from Tuyuq, Xinjiang
Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 2022Among 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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Definitional Transgression, or the Revenge of the Vernacular in Hindu Tantric Studies
Religion Compass, 2007Abstract Until recently the concerns of Sanskritists, esotericists, and philosophers have dominated the academic study of Hindu tantra. Now scholars increasingly focus on ritual practice, living traditions, and vernacular texts.
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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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Red: An Ethnographic Study of Cross-Pollination Between the Vedic and the Tantric
International Journal of Hindu Studies, 2019This essay explores the connections between Tantric rites and those of Indian tribal religions with “blood” as the central subject. Rooted in ethnographic research in Assam, India, the essay compares the ritual of bali, animal sacrifice, as practiced in the famous śākta pīṭha, Kāmākhyā, with corresponding data gathered from the practice of bali in the ...
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Religions of South Asia, 2007
Through a brief cultural genealogy of the West’s encounter with Asian Tantric traditions from the late 1880s through the early 1980s and some personal reflections on the controversies surrounding the author’s Kali’s Child, this essay suggests that contemporary Indology’s orienting turn to Tantric texts and traditions and its occasional “excessive ...
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Through a brief cultural genealogy of the West’s encounter with Asian Tantric traditions from the late 1880s through the early 1980s and some personal reflections on the controversies surrounding the author’s Kali’s Child, this essay suggests that contemporary Indology’s orienting turn to Tantric texts and traditions and its occasional “excessive ...
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Pilot fMRI-EEG study of tantric meditation in Tibetan monks
Журнал высшей нервной деятельности им. И.П. Павлова / I.P. Pavlov Journal of Higher Nervous ActivityThis pilot study aimed to investigate brain functional activity and connectivity using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG) in Tibetan monks during meditation. The meditative practice was based on Buddhist techniques requiring focused attention and the “dissolution” of mental imagery. Three monks participated in
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Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, 2011
Starting in the sixth century, a new religious notion of the female gradually emerged in Tantric Buddhism. Although the female was raised to an ideal of transcendence, she nevertheless was subject to an androcentric depiction represented as the male's Other.
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Starting in the sixth century, a new religious notion of the female gradually emerged in Tantric Buddhism. Although the female was raised to an ideal of transcendence, she nevertheless was subject to an androcentric depiction represented as the male's Other.
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Tibetan documents in the archives of the Tantric Lamas of Tshognam in Mustang, Nepal: An interdisciplinary case study [PDF]
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