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The roots of Tantra / edited by Katherine Anne Harper and Robert L. Brown.

Contributor(s): Harper, Katherine Anne | Brown, Robert L, 1944 October 6-
Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in tantric studies: Publisher: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, 2002Description: ix, 270 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0791453065 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0791453057 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Tantrism -- HistoryDDC classification: 294.5/514 LOC classification: BL1283.83 | .R66 2002Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
What do we mean by Tantrism? / André Padoux -- Early evidence for Tantric religion / David N. Lorenzen -- Historical and iconographic aspects of Śākta Tantrism / M. C. Joshi -- Auspicious fragments and uncertain wisdom: the roots of Śrīvidya Śākta Tantrism in south India / Douglas Renfrew Brooks -- The structural interplay of Tantra, Vedānta, and Bhakti: nondualist commentary on the goddess / Thomas B. Coburn -- The spinal serpent / Thomas McEvilley -- The warring Śaktis: a paradigm for Gupta conquests / Katherine Anne Harper -- Early evidence of the Pāñcarātra Āgama / Dennis Hudson -- Imagery of the self from Veda to Tantra / Teun Goudriaan -- Tongues of flame: homologies in the Tantric Homa / Richard K. Payne -- Becoming Bhairava: meditative vision in Abhinavagupta's Parātrīśikā-laghuvṛtti / Paul E. Muller-Ortega -- Tantric incantation in the Devī Purāṇa: the Padamālā Mantra Vidyā / Lina Gupta.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library Midrange BL1283.83 .R66 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182902325816

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What do we mean by Tantrism? / André Padoux -- Early evidence for Tantric religion / David N. Lorenzen -- Historical and iconographic aspects of Śākta Tantrism / M. C. Joshi -- Auspicious fragments and uncertain wisdom: the roots of Śrīvidya Śākta Tantrism in south India / Douglas Renfrew Brooks -- The structural interplay of Tantra, Vedānta, and Bhakti: nondualist commentary on the goddess / Thomas B. Coburn -- The spinal serpent / Thomas McEvilley -- The warring Śaktis: a paradigm for Gupta conquests / Katherine Anne Harper -- Early evidence of the Pāñcarātra Āgama / Dennis Hudson -- Imagery of the self from Veda to Tantra / Teun Goudriaan -- Tongues of flame: homologies in the Tantric Homa / Richard K. Payne -- Becoming Bhairava: meditative vision in Abhinavagupta's Parātrīśikā-laghuvṛtti / Paul E. Muller-Ortega -- Tantric incantation in the Devī Purāṇa: the Padamālā Mantra Vidyā / Lina Gupta.

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