Encyclopaedia of tantra

著者

• Santidev, Sadhu

書誌事項

Encyclopaedia of tantra

by Sadhu Santidev

Cosmo Pub., c1999

• : set
• v. 1
• v. 2
• v. 3
• v. 4
• v. 5

注記

In cover: Encyclopaedia of tantra / Sadhu Santideva

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Tantra (Sanskrit, "web" or "warp"), a body of esoteric Hindu and Buddhist religious texts and rituals. The Hindu Tantras were written after the Puranas, in the medieval period, and are usually set in the form of a dialogue between the god Shive and his consort Parvati, in which he explanis to her the philosophy and myths underlying the Tantric ritual. They emphasize the goddess Shakti as the female power or energy of the God. This view taken to its extreme holds that Shiva with out Shakti is like a corpse. The Tantric rituals involve reversals of normal Hindus social practices and reversals of normal physiological processes. It also reverses the orthodox Hindu "five products of the cow" or panchagavya (milk, butter, curds, urine, and faeces) used for purification; in Tantra, these become the "five m's"; maithuna ("intercourse") matsya ("fish") mansa ("fish"), mudra ("parched grain"), and mada ("wine") Tantric adepts learn, from a guru, how to raise their psychosexual energy-the curled serpent power (Kundalini) that lies at the base of the spine -through successive focal points (chakras), until it reaches the highest chakra, at the top of the skul, and the adept experiences, within, the union of the god and the goddess. This process (sadhana) begions with a systematic visualisation of the deity, limb by limb, who materializes through the use of visual diagrams (yantras) and through the use of magic incantations (mantras). Buddhist Tantra is an aspect of the third stage of Buddhism, the Thunderbolt Vehicle or Diamond Vehicle (Vajrayana) that developed out of Mahayana Buddhism; it was perfected in Tibet and both influenced and was influenced by Hindu Tantra, particularly in Assam and Bengal. Tantric sects once existed through out China and Nepal but at the present time survive principally in northenr India. The taxt guides the reader towords a greater understanding of the secrets explaning various important and key facets in language simple enouth for a general reader to understand the mystery of Tantras and clear enough for a student to provoke him to further research on the subject. This is probably the first and the only such Encyclopaedia available on Tantra and will be welcomed by all classes of readers-general, reserarches, teachers, and students alike. It will particularly be intersting for the wester readers as it provides him an oppertunity to get all important information on this important branch of Hindu philosophy at one place.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA44695071
• ISBN:
  • 8170208637
  • 8170208645
  • 8170208653
  • 8170208661
  • 817020867X
  • 8170208688
• 出版国コード: ii
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: New Delhi
• ページ数/冊数: 5 v.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Tantrism -- History