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Tantra

Author : Georg Feuerstein, Ph.D.
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834825457
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Tantra written by Georg Feuerstein, Ph.D. and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1998-07-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading yoga researcher offers a clear and lively introduction to the history, philosophy, and practice of the Tantric spiritual tradition Tantra—often associated with Kundalini Yoga—is a fundamental dimension of Hinduism, emphasizing the cultivation of “divine power” (shakti) as a path to infinite bliss. Tantra has been widely misunderstood in the West, however, where its practices are often confused with eroticism and licentious morality. Tantra: The Path of Ecstasy dispels many common misconceptions, providing an accessible introduction to the history, philosophy, and practice of this extraordinary spiritual tradition. The Tantric teachings are geared toward the attainment of enlightenment as well as spiritual power and are present not only in Hinduism but also Jainism and Vajrayana Buddhism. In this book, Georg Feuerstein offers readers a clear understanding of authentic Tantra, as well as appropriate guidance for spiritual practice and the attainment of higher consciousness.

Tantra Illuminated

Author : Christopher D. Wallis
Publisher : Mattamayura Press
ISBN 13 : 9780989761307
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book Tantra Illuminated written by Christopher D. Wallis and published by Mattamayura Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes readers on a fascinating journey to the very heart of Tantra: its key teachings, foundational lineages, and transformative practices. Since the West's discovery of Tantra 100 years ago, there has been considerable fascination, speculation, and more than a little misinformation about this spiritual movement. Now, for the first time in the English language, Tantra Illuminated presents an accessible introduction to this sacred tradition that began 1,500 years ago, in the far north of India. The book uses translations from primary Sanskrit sources, offers a profound look at spiritual practice, and reveals Tantra's rich history and powerful teachings.

Esoteric Teachings Of The Tibetan Tantra (Annotated Edition)

Author : C. A. Muses
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849621936
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Esoteric Teachings Of The Tibetan Tantra (Annotated Edition) written by C. A. Muses and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2012 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the extended and annotated edition including * an extensive annotation of more than 10.000 words about the history and basics of Buddhism, written by Thomas William Rhys Davids Contents: Part I: Seven Initiation Rituals Of The Tibetan Tantra Chapter One - The Initiation Ritual Of The Fierce Guru Chapter Two - The Initiation Ritual Of The Fierce Guru With Phurba Chapter Three - The Initiation Ritual Of The All-Merciful One Chapter Four - The Initiation Ritual Of Hayagriva Buddha. The Green Rta-Mgrin's Initiation Ceremony From The Treasury Of Percipience Chapter Five - The Initiation Ritual Of The Red Gshin-Rje Chapter Six - The Superb Initiation Ritual Of Ahm Gtsug Vajrapani Chapter Seven - A Compendium Of The Initiation Rituals Of Performance Or All-Accomplishing Wisdom Presided Over By Amoghasiddhi Part Ii - The Six Yogas Of Naropa [In Tsong-Kha-Pa's Commentary] Prologue Chapter One - Introduction Chapter Two - Special Preparations Chapter Three - The Arising And Perfecting Yoga Chapter Four - The Steps Of Practice In The Path Chapter Five - The Art Of Gtum-Mo Or Heat Yoga Chapter Six - The Practice Of The Illusory Body Or Dream Yoga, Depending On Foregoing Heat Yoga Chapter Seven - On The Bardo Realm Chapter Eight - The Yoga Of The Light Chapter Nine - The Transformation Yoga Chapter Ten - How To Improve The Practice In The Path Chapter Eleven - Tsong Khopa's Summary Of Sources Epilogue Appendix - The Vow Of Mahamudra Translator's Introduction Editor's Note The Vow Of Mahamudra

Teachings and Practice of Tibetan Tantra

Author : Garma C. C. Chang
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486166767
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Teachings and Practice of Tibetan Tantra written by Garma C. C. Chang and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concise guide describes the art of spiritualizing one's sexuality and offers efficient methods for transmuting fear and attachment into love and universal power. Step-by-step instructions demonstrate how to perform traditional yoga exercises.

An Introduction to Tantric Philosophy

Author : Lyne Bansat-Boudon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136930752
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Book Synopsis An Introduction to Tantric Philosophy by : Lyne Bansat-Boudon

Download or read book An Introduction to Tantric Philosophy written by Lyne Bansat-Boudon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Paramārthasāra, or ‘Essence of Ultimate Reality’, is a work of the Kashmirian polymath Abhinavagupta (tenth–eleventh centuries). It is a brief treatise in which the author outlines the doctrine of which he is a notable exponent, namely nondualistic Śaivism, which he designates in his works as the Trika, or ‘Triad’ of three principles: Śiva, Śakti and the embodied soul (nara). The main interest of the Paramārthasāra is not only that it serves as an introduction to the established doctrine of a tradition, but also advances the notion of jiv̄anmukti, ‘liberation in this life’, as its core theme. Further, it does not confine itself to an exposition of the doctrine as such but at times hints at a second sense lying beneath the evident sense, namely esoteric techniques and practices that are at the heart of the philosophical discourse. Its commentator, Yogarāja (eleventh century), excels in detecting and clarifying those various levels of meaning. An Introduction to Tantric Philosophy presents, along with a critically revised Sanskrit text, the first annotated English translation of both Abhinavagupta’s Paramārthasāra and Yogarāja’s commentary. This book will be of interest to Indologists, as well as to specialists and students of Religion, Tantric studies and Philosophy.

Buddhist Tantra

Author : Lalan Prasad Singh
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9788180696473
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (964 download)

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Download or read book Buddhist Tantra written by Lalan Prasad Singh and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia

Author : Charles Orzech
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004184910
Total Pages : 1223 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia written by Charles Orzech and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011 with total page 1223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism

Author : Christian K. Wedemeyer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231162413
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism written by Christian K. Wedemeyer and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Tantra for Westerners

Author : King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781869928605
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (286 download)

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Download or read book Tantra for Westerners written by King and published by . This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Tantra has mystical, philosophical, and religious aspects it is, above all, a technique of action -- a system of physical, mental, and spiritual discipline incorporating meditation, yoga, and sacramental worship in the widest sense of the phrase. Tantra for Westerners is a complete theoretical and practical guide to the Way of Action, covering concepts of pleasure and pain, power and passivity, esoteric physiology, Tantra and Qabalism, right-hand and left-hand Tantra, tantric rituals for westerners, and the arousal of kundalini -- the serpent power.

Tantra, Its Mystic and Scientific Basis

Author : Lalan Prasad Singh
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9788180696404
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (964 download)

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Download or read book Tantra, Its Mystic and Scientific Basis written by Lalan Prasad Singh and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Principles of Tantra ...

Author : Shiva Chandra Vidyarnava Bhattacharya
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Principles of Tantra ... written by Shiva Chandra Vidyarnava Bhattacharya and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kulārṇava Tantra

Author : Madhav Pundalik Pandit
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN 13 : 9788120809734
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Kulārṇava Tantra written by Madhav Pundalik Pandit and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 1999 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kularnava Tantra is perhaps the foremost Tantra of the Kaula School and is constantly cited as an authority in Tantric literature. It is worthy of close study by those who would understand the tenets and practice of the tradition of which it is a Sastra. It calls upon man to wake up to the rare privilege that has been given to him, e.g., human birth in which the being becomes conscious of himself and is offered a choice, a choice between stagnation and rapid progression towards his Godhead. He is asked to purify himself and told how to do it. In unambiguous terms he is told that a wine-drinker is different from the drinkers of ecstasy; the union of delight is between the ascending Shakti and the presiding Lord above, and not between man and woman. The Introduction by Arthur Avalon (Sir John Woodroffe) gives a concise outline of the work. Sri M.P. Pandit, who is a keen student of the Tantras and Vedas, has rendered the work in English in eleven chapters. The Readings are free transla-tions with annotations where necessary, omitting technical details but preserving the spirit and essential import of the original in his characteristically lucid style. The complete text is given in Devanagari after being duly edited by Taranatha Vidyaranya for those who wish to study the book in the original Sanskrit..

Seven Systems of Indian Philosophy

Author : Rajmani Tigunait
Publisher : Himalayan Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 9780893890766
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Seven Systems of Indian Philosophy written by Rajmani Tigunait and published by Himalayan Institute Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive outline of the major schools of Indian philosophy providing an overview of what comprises Indian philosophy.

Tantric Traditions

Author : Gwendolyn Taunton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780648299608
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Tantric Traditions written by Gwendolyn Taunton and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tantra. The word conjures forth a million images - including sex, transgressive practices, and the occult. But how accurate are these portrayals, and how do they compare to actual Tantric practices in India? To the casual observer, Tantra appears to partake of an oppositional role in regard to Vedic teachings, but this conceals a much more conservative core, for the Tantric traditions actually strive to reinforce their Vedic heritage. The Tantras are believed to be the appropriate teaching in the Kali Yuga, and understanding the role that the Kali Yuga plays in Tantric traditions is absolutely vital to interpreting the nature of Tantra itself. Contrary to being opposed to Vedic teachings, Tantra is actually an extension of them - it is a reinterpretation of the Vedas for the modern era.In addition to explaining the complex role Tantra plays within the larger corpus of Hinduism, Tantric Traditions also examines the way in which Tantra is linked to sacred geographical locations, and provides explanations on the nature of Siva, the Devi, the role of the Traditionalist School in the export of Tantric traditions to the West, and reveals secret mantra techniques.Furthermore, Tantric Traditions provides details on magical and esoteric practices from authentic Tantric occult texts such as the Mantramahodadhi of Mahidara (c.1588 CE) and the Vinasikhatantra, both of which make even the most infamous European Grimoires look totally harmless by comparison.CONTENTSIntroductionPART I Gods, Sacred Sites, & the Kali YugaShiva: Naṭarāja, Śankara, & Higher ConsciousnessNataraja - Shankara - Yoga - ShamanismThe Devi: From Satī to KālīSati - Parvati - Durga - Kali - DraupadiTopographical ReligiosityKashi - Tirtha-Yatra - Shakta PithasTantra, the Kali Yuga, and the Occidental TraditionalistKali Yuga - Yuga Sastra - Traditionalism PART II Origins, Rituals, & Esoteric TeachingsThe Point of OriginDefinition - History - Rta - Dharma - Kali YugaSacred TransgressionPower - Impurity - Left Hand Path - Right Hand Path Lexicographical GnoseologyBhaskararaya - Abhinavagupta - Mantra Encryption - Formulas - Rasa - Philosophy of SoundMagico-Religious PracticesCharms - Siddhi - Mantramahodadhi of Mahidhara - Vinasikhatantra - Alchemy - Magical PracticesAppendix IOccult FormulaAppendix IITables of Correspondences

Tantric Traditions in Transmission and Translation

Author : David B. Gray
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199909520
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Tantric Traditions in Transmission and Translation written by David B. Gray and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tantric traditions in both Buddhism and Hinduism are thriving throughout Asia and in Asian diasporic communities around the world, yet they have been largely ignored by Western scholars until now. This collection of original essays fills this gap by examining the ways in which Tantric Buddhist traditions have changed over time and distance as they have spread across cultural boundaries in Asia. The book is divided into three sections dedicated to South Asia, Central Asia, and East Asia. The essays cover such topics as the changing ideal of masculinity in Buddhist literature, the controversy triggered by the transmission of the Indian Buddhist deity Heruka to Tibet in the 10th century, and the evolution of a Chinese Buddhist Tantric tradition in the form of the True Buddha School. The book as a whole addresses complex and contested categories in the field of religious studies, including the concept of syncretism and the various ways that the change and transformation of religious traditions can be described and articulated. The authors, leading scholars in Tantric studies, draw on a wide array of methodologies from the fields of history, anthropology, art history, and sociology. Tantric Traditions in Transmission and Translation is groundbreaking in its attempt to look past religious, linguistic, and cultural boundaries.

Meditations from the Tantras

Author : Swami Satyananda Saraswati
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788185787114
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (871 download)

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Download or read book Meditations from the Tantras written by Swami Satyananda Saraswati and published by . This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hindu tantric practices and meditation.

Tantric Ethics

Author : Tsong-kha-pa Blo-bzang-grags-pa
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0861712900
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Tantric Ethics written by Tsong-kha-pa Blo-bzang-grags-pa and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-09-27 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The scholar and tantric adept Tsongkhapa (1357-1419), one of the greatest philosophers produced by Tibet's Buddhist culture, composed works on every aspect of Buddhist philosophy and practice. This book contains a translation of his Fruit Clusters of Siddhis, an explanation of the tantric vows, and provides a clear explanation of the nature of each vow and the criteria for determining when a downfall has occurred."--BOOK JACKET.