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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 : 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 : 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.
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ISBN 13 : 9788120837669
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (376 download)
Download or read book Laksmi Tantra written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 383 pages
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Download or read book Laksmī-tantra a Pāñcaratra Āgama written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 383 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 : 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 : Lynn Foulston
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1802071342
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Hindu Goddesses written by Lynn Foulston and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-03 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the diversity of Hindu goddesses and the variety of ways in which they are worshipped. Although they undoubtedly have ancient origins, Hindu goddesses and their worship is still very much a part of the fabric of religious engagement in India today. This book offers an introduction to a complex and often baffling field of study.
Author : Mandakranta Bose
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191079685
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Oxford History of Hinduism: The Goddess written by Mandakranta Bose and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford History of Hinduism: The Goddess provides a critical exposition of the Hindu idea of the divine feminine, or Devī, conceived as a singularity expressed in many forms. With the theological principles examined in the opening chapters, the book proceeds to describe and expound historically how individual manifestations of Devī have been imagined in Hindu religious culture and their impact upon Hindu social life. In this quest the contributors draw upon the history and philosophy of major Hindu ideologies, such as the Purāṇic, Tāntric, and Vaiṣṇava belief systems. A particular distinction of the book is its attention not only to the major goddesses from the earliest period of Hindu religious history but also to goddesses of later origin, in many cases of regional provenance and influence. Viewed through the lens of worship practices, legend, and literature, belief in goddesses is discovered as the formative impulse of much of public and private life. The influence of the goddess culture is especially powerful on women's life, often paradoxically situating women between veneration and subjection. This apparent contradiction arises from the humanization of goddesses while acknowledging their divinity, which is central to Hindu beliefs. In addition to studying the social and theological aspect of the goddess ideology, the contributors take anthropological, sociological, and literary approaches to delineate the emotional force of the goddess figure that claims intense human attachments and shapes personal and communal lives.
Author : Pancaratra. Laksmitantra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (731 download)
Download or read book Laksmi Tantra written by Pancaratra. Laksmitantra and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Miranda Shaw
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691010908
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Passionate Enlightenment written by Miranda Shaw and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1995-10-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who reads a Tantric text or enters a Tantric temple immediately encounters a pantheon of female Buddhas and a host of female enlighteners known as "dakinis," who dance and leap in joyous poses that communicate a sense of mastery and spiritual power. This striking female imagery is fully compatible with Shaw's findings. Drawing on interviews and archival research conducted during two years of fieldwork in India and Nepal, including more than forty previously unnoticed works by women of the Pala period (eighth through twelfth centuries C.E.), she substantially reinterprets the history of Tantric Buddhism during its first four centuries. In her view, the Tantric theory of this period promotes an ideal of cooperative, mutually liberative relationships between women and men while encouraging a sense of reliance on women as a source of spiritual insight and power.
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 : 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 : 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 : 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:
