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Studies on Bhartṛhari and the Pratyabhijñā: The Case of svasaṃvedana
Religions, 2017 The article addresses a critical problem in the history of South Asian philosophy, namely the nature of the ‘knowledge of knowledge’ (svasaṃvedana). In particular, it investigates how the Śaiva tantric school of the Pratyabhijñā (10th–11th c.
Marco Ferrante
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Listening to the Snake; or, On Having a Spine [PDF]
, 2006 The western prohibition of reflection on what we call today religion begins not with a banned scholarly monograph or a taunted academic, but with a myth about a transgressive desire for mature moral knowledge and a subsequent sexual emotion, namely ...
Kripal, Jeffrey J.
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Symbolic and Imaginative Source of Mudra and Asana in Buddhist Art
Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные наукиThis article reveals the meaning of one of the key elements of Buddhist iconography, i.e. the phenomenon of mudra (folding of fingers) and asana (body posture).
Victoria Vladimirovna Demenova
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Tibetan Bonpo Mendrup: The Precious Formula’s Transmission
History of Science in South Asia, 2017 The article presents the traceable history of the Tibetan Bonpo mendrup ritual practice in textual sources, as it has been recorded by the Bonpos themselves.
Anna Sehnalova
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An Old Uighur balividhi Fragment Unearthed from the Northern Grottoes of Dūnhuáng
ReligionsPhotographs of the recto side of the manuscript fragment B121:38 in Old Uighur, which was excavated from the northern section of the Dūnhuáng Mògāo Caves, were published in the second volume of The Northern Grottoes of Mògāo Caves. Because the verso side,
Aydar Mirkamal, Xiaonan Li
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Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2019 ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Hymns written by N.F.S. Grundtvig (1783-1872) are conspicuously lacking in worms and in the smell of death. This fact is particularly striking when Grundtvig’s texts are compared with the textual universe of Thomas Kingo (1634-1703 ...
Katrine Frøkjær Baunvig
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EPILOGUE: Currents of convergence—Religious change in Asian contexts
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 318-320, August 2025.
J. Derrick Lemons
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Deconstructing Gender Stereotypes in Leak [PDF]
, 2015 The belief of Balinese people towards leak still survive. Leak is a magic based on durgaism that can transform a person from human to another form, such as apes, pigs, etc. People tend to regard leak as evil.
Atmadja, N. B. (Nengah) +2 more
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Deification as a Core Theme in Julius Evola’s Esoteric Works
Correspondences, 2018 “Deification” or “Becoming God” is used in this article as a central hermeneutical key to understand Julius Evola’s (1898–1974) philosophic and, most importantly, esoteric work.
Hans Thomas Hakl
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Imaginative Realization in the Vijñānabhairava Tantra [PDF]
, 2017 Among the religious traditions that developed in ancient India, the Tantric tradition offers one of the most vigorous efforts at vindicating the powers of the imagination.
Figueroa, Óscar
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