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Title
Studies on Tantra in Bengal and Eastern India / edited by Madhu Khanna.
ISBN
9789811930225 (electronic bk.)
9811930228 (electronic bk.)
9789811930218
981193021X
Published
Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore, 2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (colour).
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-981-19-3022-5 doi
Call Number
BL1243.79.I4
Dewey Decimal Classification
294.513
Summary
This book explores the tantric concept of Shakti, or the principal female cosmic entity and her pilgrimage sites. It offers a first-hand view of the multidimensional ways in which Shakti asserted its supremacy over existing Vaishnava and orthodox Brahmanical traditions in post mediaeval Bengal and India. The interdisciplinary chapters pave the way to understanding the intra-textual relationships between philosophical and conceptual ideas in literary texts and their oral transmission. Divided into three thematic sections: Cult Inclusiveness, akti Pithas, and the kta Philosophy, the book invites readers to explore a contested area of scholarship from unique perspectives, offering rich insights into the nature of negotiations between diverse religious streams. It also urges readers to examine the many innovative approaches and theoretical models on the goddess culture of East India. The book is of interest to students and scholars of religious textual studies, anthropology, pilgrimage studies, comparative religion, Sanskrit and Bengali languages, regional studies, South Asian cultures, goddess traditions and cultural history of mediaeval Bengal.
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Includes index.
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The Making of Tntric Rdh: A Reading from the r-Kraymala
Prema and akti: VaiavaSahajiy Appropriations of GauyaVaiavism and ktism in the nandabhairava of Prema-dsa
Tantra from Below: Inclusivity, Secrecy and Non-Conceptual Yogas in the Bul-Sahajiy Traditions
Weaving the Body and the Cosmos: Yantric Homologies at a Goddess Temple in Northeastern India
The Metamorphosis of the Gchh Tar Vl and the Making of a akti-Pha in Mithila
Power and Desire in the worship of the Goddess Kmkhy
Gynocentric Cosmogony in the DevbhgavataPura
The Monistic kta Philosophy in the Guhyopaniad .
