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The tantric body : the secret tradition of Hindu religion /

Providing a complete understanding of tantra's mysteries, Gavin Flood argues that within tantra the body is more than just a sexual entity, it is a vehicle for the spirituality that is fundamental to people's minds.

Основен автор: Flood, Gavin D., 1954-
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: London ; New York : New York : I.B. Tauris ; Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Предмети:
Tantrism > Doctrines.
Human body > Religious aspects > Tantrism.
Tantrism > Rituals > Texts > History and criticism.
RELIGION > Hinduism > General.
Tantra's.
Leiblichkeit > Tantrismus.
Tantrismus > Leiblichkeit.
Tantrismus.
Ko˜rperlichkeit > Hinduismus.
Ko˜rperbild > Tantrismus.
Electronic books.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Tantric body.
Съдържание:
  • pt. Theory, text and history
  • 1. Introduction : the body as text
  • Tantra, tradition and the body
  • Reading strategies : text
  • Reading strategies : body
  • Experience and asceticism
  • The argument of the book
  • 2. The vedic body
  • The political and social context
  • Legal discourse
  • Political discourse
  • The highest good
  • 3. The tantric revelation
  • The validity of tantric revelation
  • The Pa„nƒcara„tra revelation
  • The Saiva revelation
  • Text and tradition
  • The tantric theology of revelation
  • Revelation and doctrine
  • 4. Tantric civilisation
  • The divinisation of the body as root metaphor
  • Tantric polity
  • The tantric temple
  • Tantra and erotic sculpture
  • Possession
  • pt. II. The body as text
  • 5. The Pa„nƒcara„tra
  • Emanationist cosmology
  • The purification of the body
  • The Bhu„tasuddhi in the tantric revelation
  • The divinisation of the body
  • Inner worship
  • External worship
  • 6. Saiva Siddha„nta
  • Saiva Siddha„nta doctrine
  • The tattva hierarchy
  • The six paths
  • The ritual process : initiation
  • The ritual process : daily rites
  • The ritual process : behaviour
  • 7. Ecstatic tantra
  • Absolute subjectivity and indexicality
  • The circle of deities in the body
  • KunĐdĐalini„ and the cakras
  • Two ritual systems
  • 8. The tantric imagination
  • Vision
  • Gesture and utterance
  • Icon
  • Indexicality
  • Reading
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix. The Jaya„khya-samĐhita„.

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