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Author | : Teja Nārāyaṇa Miśra |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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It Deals With The Development And Fundamental Aspects Of Buddhist Tantrism And Its Impact On Paintings And The Sculptural Art Of India. It Discusses Concepts And Schools Of Tantrism Citing Buddhist Tantric Works.
Author | : Christian K. Wedemeyer |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2014-05-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0231162413 |
Download Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism fundamentally rethinks the nature of the transgressive theories and practices of the Buddhist Tantric traditions, challenging the notion that the Tantras were “marginal” or primitive and situating them instead—both ideologically and institutionally—within larger trends in mainstream Buddhist and Indian culture. Critically surveying prior scholarship, Wedemeyer exposes the fallacies of attributing Tantric transgression to either the passions of lusty monks, primitive tribal rites, or slavish imitation of Saiva traditions. Through comparative analysis of modern historical narratives—that depict Tantrism as a degenerate form of Buddhism, a primal religious undercurrent, or medieval ritualism—he likewise demonstrates these to be stock patterns in the European historical imagination. Through close analysis of primary sources, Wedemeyer reveals the lived world of Tantric Buddhism as largely continuous with the Indian religious mainstream and deploys contemporary methods of semiotic and structural analysis to make sense of its seemingly repellent and immoral injunctions. Innovative, semiological readings of the influential Guhyasamaja Tantra underscore the text’s overriding concern with purity, pollution, and transcendent insight—issues shared by all Indic religions—and a large-scale, quantitative study of Tantric literature shows its radical antinomianism to be a highly managed ritual observance restricted to a sacerdotal elite. These insights into Tantric scripture and ritual clarify the continuities between South Asian Tantrism and broader currents in Indian religion, illustrating how thoroughly these “radical” communities were integrated into the intellectual, institutional, and social structures of South Asian Buddhism.
Author | : Rob Preece |
Publisher | : Snow Lion |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2006-11-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Download The Psychology of Buddhist Tantra Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is unique in the way in which it explains the rich iconography of Tibetan Buddhism in relation to spiritual psychology and the exploration of our inner world. It is a door into the rich and profound symbolism of Tibetan sacred art. The author uses concepts from Western psychotherapy to bridge an understanding of the meaning and functions of these symbols.
Author | : Detlef Ingo Lauf |
Publisher | : Shambhala Publications |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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In the Tibetan highlands Buddhism flowered in the form known as Lamaism, and the presence of religious art in Tibet has been universal, extending even to remote and secluded regions. This comprehensive treatise examines this artistic heritage, aided by copious color plates and line drawings. The iconography of the great Buddhist masters and saints is presented and the mystic and revelatory functions of Tibetan religious art is elucidated.
Author | : Philip S. Rawson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Charles Orzech |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 1223 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004184910 |
Download Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume, the result of an international collaboration of forty scholars, provides a comprehensive resource on Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in their Chinese, Korean, and Japanese contexts from the first few centuries of the common era to the present.
Author | : Kirti Tsenshap |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2011-05-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0861716884 |
Download Principles of Buddhist Tantra Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Kirti Tsenshap Rinpoche was a renowned teacher of Tibetan Buddhism with students worldwide. Revered as a teacher by even the Dalai Lama, he was known especially as a master of Buddhist tantra, the powerful esoteric methods for attaining enlightenment swiftly. The teachings in this book are a singular record of his deep learning in that field. Originally delivered in California to a group of Western students, the teachings comment on a classic introduction to tantra by the nineteenth-century Mongolian lama Choje Ngawang Palden. The work, Illumination of the Tantric Tradition, is a staple even today of the curriculum for training young monastics. Kirti Tsenshap Rinpoche explains the distinctive features of the four classes of tantra--action tantra, performance tantra, yoga tantra, and highest yoga tantra--by describing the way to progress through their paths and levels. He illuminates key issues in tantric practice that are still a matter for debate within the tradition. Finally, he gives a special treatment of the unique methods of Kalacakra tantra, which is regularly taught around the globe by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Author | : Robert N. Linrothe |
Publisher | : Serindia Publications, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Buddhism |
ISBN | : 0906026512 |
Download Ruthless Compassion Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The historical development of Esoteric Buddhism in India is still known only in outline. A few verifiably early texts do give some insight into the origin of the ideas which would later develop and spread to East and Southeast Asia, and to Tibet. However, there is another kind of evidence which can be harnessed to the project of reconstructing the history of Esoteric Buddhist doctrines and practice. This evidence consists of art objects, mainly sculpture, which survive in significant numbers from the 6th to the 13th century.
Author | : Pranshu Samdarshi |
Publisher | : SABHI (Students for the Awareness of Buddhist Heritage of India), Delhi, India. |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2019-01-24 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1795060069 |
Download Buddhist Tantra: Methodology and Historiography Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book analyses our conventional ways of looking at Buddhism in general and Buddhist tantra in particular. It investigates how the frameworks and structures that were developed for European and Biblical studies have been deployed to interpret various facets of Buddhism. Many such models that still dominate the historical imagination of Buddhist studies have been examined in this book. This book also proposes an alternative approach towards the Buddhist studies and advocates incorporating the critical study of tantra texts from the perspective of traditional accounts.
Author | : Serinity Young |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2004-03-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1135964262 |
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The wisest teachings of Buddhism say that, like all oppositions, one must move beyond gender. But as Serinity Young shows in this enlightening work, the rhetoric of Buddhist texts, the symbolism of its iconography, and the performative import of its rituals, tell different, and often contradictory, stories. In Courtesans and Tantric Consorts, Serinity Young takes the reader on a journey through more than 2000 years of biographical writings, iconographic depictions, and ritual practices revealing Buddhism's deep struggles with gender. Juxtaposing empowering images of women with their textual repudiation, beginning with the Buddha himself who abandoned his wife; tantric courtesans who are considered necessary to male enlightenment with fertility rituals designed to ensure male offspring; tales of gender-bending gods and goddesses with all male heavens; Serinity Young draws on a vast range of sources to reveal the colourful, and often troubling, mosaic of beliefs that inform Buddhist views about gender and sexuality.