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Author : Sanjukta Gupta
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book LAKSMI TANTRA written by Sanjukta Gupta and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gupta
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900464556X
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Laksmī Tantra written by Gupta and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1972-06 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : P. Pratap Kumar
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780788501999
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Goddess Lakṣmī written by P. Pratap Kumar and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the status of the Goddess Laksmi in relation to her consort Vishnu in South Indian Vaisnavism? In some Hindu sub-traditions the Goddess is seen as a mediator between devotees and God. Other traditions put the Goddess on a par with her male counterpart. In yet other traditions she is worshiped as an independent deity in her own right. South Indian Vaisnavism views the Goddess in all of these ways, and theological debates on these issues have flourished. In clarifying these debates and the assumptions behind them the author contributes not only to the interpretive study of South Indian Vaisnavism, but also to an understanding of gender issues in the study of religion.
Author : Sanjukta Gupta
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN 13 : 9788120817357
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Laksmi Tantra written by Sanjukta Gupta and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 2000 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the vast number of Pancaratra Agamic texts the Laksmi Tantra stands out because it deals almost exclusively with Laksmi. The divine creative impulse, intelligence, potency, potentiality, power, majesty and speech. The focus of the text is on Pancaratra philosophy (including cosmogony) and the practice of yoga based on it, with its attendent Mantra Sastra. By dealing with the role of Sakti in the creation and maintenance of the world, totally rely on God`s mercy and benevolence, the Laksmi Tantra succeeds in overcoming sectarian boundaries.
Author : Katherine Anne Harper
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 079148890X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book The Roots of Tantra written by Katherine Anne Harper and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the many spiritual traditions born and developed in India, Tantra has been the most difficult to define. Almost everything about it—its major characteristics, its sources, its relationships to other religions, even its practices—are debated among scholars. In addition, Tantrism is not confined to any particular religion, but is a set of beliefs and practices that appears in a variety of religions, including Hinduism and Buddhism. This book explores one of the most controversial aspects of Tantra, its sources or roots, specifically in regard to Hinduism. The essays focus on the history and development of Tantra, the art history and archaeology of Tantra, the Vedas and Tantra, and texts and Tantra. Using various disciplinary and methodological approaches, from history to art history and religious studies to textual studies, scholars provide both broad overviews of the beginnings of Tantra and detailed analyses of specific texts, authors, art works, and rituals.
Author : Constantina Rhodes
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438433220
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Invoking Lakshmi written by Constantina Rhodes and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-09-29 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multi-faceted portrait of Lakshmi, Hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity. Includes translations of verses used to invoke this goddess.
Author : Cheever Mackenzie Brown
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791403631
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The Triumph of the Goddess written by Cheever Mackenzie Brown and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors of the Devī-Bhāgavata Purāna endeavored to demonstrate the superiority of the Devī over competing masculine deities, and to articulate in new ways the manifold nature of the Goddess. Brown's book sets out to examine how the Purana pursues these ends. The Devī-Bhāgavata employs many ancient myths and motifs from older masculine theologies, incorporating them into a thoroughly "feminized" theological framework. The text also seeks to supplant older "masculine" canonical authorities. Part I of Brown's study explores these strategies by focusing on the Purana's self-conscious endeavor to supersede the famous VaisBhagavata Purana. The Devī-Bhāgavata also re-envisions older mythological traditions about the Goddess, especially those in the first great Sanskritic glorification of the Goddess, the Devi-Mahatmya. Brown shows in Part II how this re-envisioning process transforms the Devī from a primarily martial and erotic goddess into the World-Mother of infinite compassion. Part III examines the Devi Gita, the philosophical climax of the Purana modeled upon the Bhagavad Gita. The Devi Gita, while affirming that ultimate reality is the divine Mother, avows that her highest form as consciousness encompasses all gender, thereby suggesting the final triumph of the Goddess. It is not simply that She is superior to the male gods, but rather that She transcends Her own sexuality without denying it.
Author : Harvey P. Alper
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780887065996
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (659 download)
Download or read book Mantra written by Harvey P. Alper and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explicates the origin, nature, function, and significance of mantras within the bounds of the Hindu tradition. It explores the use of mantras in the Vedic age, in Saivism and Vaisnavism, in Tantra, and in Ayurvedic medicine.
Author : Dr. T K PARTHASARATHY
Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book TRANSCENDENCE AND IMMANENCE IN VISISHTADVAITA PHILOSOPHY written by Dr. T K PARTHASARATHY and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the dawn of Philosophy, our ancient seers were into the deep inquiry of the three realities the Brahman, the sentient beings, and insentient objects. The theological system of Sri Rāmānuja’s philosophy, known as Viśiṣṭādvaita, analogous to the Pan-en-theism of Western concept is a school-based on Vedanta which assigns different stages to the Divine body of the God where God is “FAR” from us yet He is very NEAR. His paratva (superiority) is as glorious as His soulabhya (accessibility). He is part of this world and all the rest form His body and He is inseparably intertwined with the rest of the universe. This unique concept is the fulcrum on which the entire Viśiṣṭādvaita revolves.
Author : Rufus C. Camphausen
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN 13 : 9780892813896
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (138 download)
Download or read book The Divine Library written by Rufus C. Camphausen and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 1992-06 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Succinctly describes 140 sacred texts, dating from the earliest times to the present, in relation to the cultures that created them.
Author : S.M.S. Chari
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 : 8120841352
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Vaisnavism written by S.M.S. Chari and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a scholarly book on one of the oldest living religions of India. Tracing the basic tenets of Vaisnavism to the hymns of Rgveda the earliest religious literature of the world, the author has shown how an ancient cult has developed itself by successive stages into a well-formulated monotheistic system in the hands of Ramanuja and his illustrious followers. In the second part of the book the fundamental philosophical theories of Visistadvaita Vedanta are presented to prove that Vaisnavism is not a mere religious cult, but has a credible philosophic foundation.
Author : Harvey P. Alper
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120807464
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Understanding Mantras written by Harvey P. Alper and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1991 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gaurinath Sastri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Introduction to Tantra written by Gaurinath Sastri and published by . This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2 Volumes Set Guides The Reader Towards A Better Understanding Of The Secrets, Explaining In Simple Language Important Facets Of The Mysteries Of Tantra.
Author : Anway Mukhopadhyay
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030524558
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Authority of Female Speech in Indian Goddess Traditions written by Anway Mukhopadhyay and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary debates on “mansplaining” foreground the authority enjoyed by male speech, and highlight the way it projects listening as the responsibility of the dominated, and speech as the privilege of the dominant. What mansplaining denies systematically is the right of women to speak and be heard as much as men. This book excavates numerous instances of the authority of female speech from Indian goddess traditions and relates them to the contemporary gender debates, especially to the issues of mansplaining and womansplaining. These traditions present a paradigm of female speech that compels its male audience to reframe the configurations of “masculinity.” This tradition of authoritative female speech forms a continuum, even though there are many points of disjuncture as well as conjuncture between the Vedic, Upanishadic, puranic, and tantric figurations of the Goddess as an authoritative speaker. The book underlines the Goddess’s role as the spiritual mentor of her devotee, exemplified in the Devi Gitas, and re-situates the female gurus in Hinduism within the traditions that find in Devi’s speech ultimate spiritual authority. Moreover, it explores whether the figure of Devi as Womansplainer can encourage a more dialogic structure of gender relations in today’s world where female voices are still often undervalued.
Author : Rāmānujācārya
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ahirbudhnya Samhitā of the Pāncarātra. Āgama written by Rāmānujācārya and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Friedrich Otto Schrader
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Introduction to the Pāñcarātra and the Ahirbudhnya Saṃhitā written by Friedrich Otto Schrader and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patit Paban Mishra
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1036413675
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (364 download)
Download or read book An Encyclopaedia in Spatio-Temporal Dimensions written by Patit Paban Mishra and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-10-20 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The encyclopaedia highlights the South Asian country of India with its varied ramifications. As a rich country with all its diversity, it has played a significant role in world affairs for more than two thousand years. India is the most populous country in the world, and its economy is growing rapidly. It is marching ahead in science and technology. In the hundredth anniversary of its independence in 2047, it aspires to become a developed nation. One should be aware of this country in this globalized world. It is not only fascinating but also knowledge-enhancing. The encyclopaedia holds importance due to several reasons: information on a vast range of subjects, scientific methodology, accuracy, and reliability. It could be used as a starting point for further research. The book will be useful for general readers, serious researchers, graduate students, and academics.
