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A New Form of Taoist Theurgy in the Qing Dynasty: Xizhu Doufa in the Taoist–Tantric Fusion Style
Religions, 2023 The Longmen Xizhu Xinzong 龍門西竺心宗 was a Taoist sect that was active during the Qing Dynasty. The sect reportedly originated in India and has long been renowned for its Xizhu Doufa 西竺斗法.
Yuhao Wu
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Magicians, Sorcerers and Witches: Considering Pretantric, Non-sectarian Sources of Tantric Practices
Religions, 2017 Most models on the origins of tantrism have been either inattentive to or dismissive of non-literate, non-sectarian ritual systems. Groups of magicians, sorcerers or witches operated in India since before the advent of tantrism and continued to perform ...
Ronald M. Davidson
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The Concept of Mind in Hindu Tantrism [PDF]
The Journal of Hindu Studies, 2020 Abstract This article presents an account of the mind as found in pre-philosophical and philosophical Śaiva and Śaiva-Śākta literature and examines some important terms that the English word translates, notably, citta, cit, and manas, although there are others, mostly in the medieval or post-Gupta period.
Flood, Gavin
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The Existence and the Sustainability of the Tantrism in Bali
International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Culture, 2016 By their local genius, the local religion, the Balinese were able to localize the teaching of Tantrism. This was a very possible since there is a match between the basic concepts of the Balinese local religion and the Tantric teachings. Reinforced by the local culture gum, the process of grafting the local religion onto the Tantrism is continuing until
Utama, I Wayan Budi
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Audial and Visual Manifestations of Śakti in Kula School of Tantrism
Prachi Prajna, 2019 Indian thought systems and religious beliefs are closely acquainted with the energy principle called Śakti. It is enormously known as the significant character of Tantrism, the traditional Indian religio-philosophical system originated in the hoary pasts.
Nirmala V
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Body, Breath and Representation in Śaiva Tantrism
Paragrana, 2009 Abstract This paper examines the idea of the subtle body as described in chapter 7 of the Netra Tantra. It shows how the body is understood as a symbolic system for mapping the cosmos and human beings place within it and examines the relationship between symbolic system and lived body.
Flood, G, Flood, Gavin
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RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2014 The issue of the spiritual liberation in Hindu Tantrism is closely linked with an idea of the primeval source of everything, or of that supreme, absolute Reality, God.
S V Pakhomov
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Tantrism, Modernity, History. On Lü Cheng's Philological Method [PDF]
, 2021 Tantrism (Mijiao 密教) is regarded by some as the alien element of magic, ritual, and worship that corrupted Buddhism in India. It is regarded by others as a highly sophisticated vehicle named Vajrayāna.
Martino Dibeltulo Concu
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, 2012 André Padoux, "What Do We Mean by Tantrism?" in Roots of Tantra (Albany, NY: SUNY, 2002), 17-24.
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JOURNAL OF INDIAN AND BUDDHIST STUDIES (INDOGAKU BUKKYOGAKU KENKYU), 2000 Kodo TAKEUCHI
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