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Tantric Teachings of the Kālikā Purāṇa: Brill's Indological Library, cartea 54

Autor Karel R. van Kooij
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 noi 2021
At a lonely place, in a remote hermitage somewhere in the Himālaya, the god Śiva is teaching Tantric worship to his humiliated sons, who want to regain their divine status: “You should worship the goddess Mahāmāyā Kālikā”. Remarkable are his ‘talks’ about preliminary rituals, mudrās, and animal as well as human sacrifice. The Tantric Teachings form the inner core of the Kālikā Purāna, i.e. ‘Old Stories about Kālikā’, composed by a learned Brāhmin about a thousand years ago in Kāmarūpa (Assam). Careful listening to the text has been my first priority when presenting the relevant passages in text and translation.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004470293
ISBN-10: 9004470298
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Brill's Indological Library


Cuprins

Preface
Abbreviations

1 Date, Environment and Narrative Structure
1A Neglected Manuscript
2A Sacrificial Site in Kathmandu
3Speakers, Audiences, Locations
4Summary and Conclusions

2 Preliminaries
1Preparation (puraścaraṇa)
2Purification (bhūtaśuddhi), Cosmic Throne (yogapīṭha)
3Yoga Body, cakra System
4Devotion (bhakti)
5‘Left’ and ‘Right Method’ (vāmabhāva, dakṣiṇabhāva)

3 Ritual Behaviour
1Reverence (namaskāra)
2Gesture (mudrā)
3Sitting Posture (āsana)
4Seat (āsana)

4 Mantra
1Selection of the Right mantra (mantrasiddhi)
2Application on the Body (nyāsa)
3Harnessing (kavaca)
4Device (yantra)

5 Blood-Chapter
1Gift of the Tribute (balidāna)
2Animal and Human Sacrifice
3Human Sacrifice in Nepal

6 Pantheon
1Contexts
2Iconology

References
General Index

Notă biografică

Karel R. van Kooij, Ph.D. (Utrecht 1972), is Professor Emeritus of Leiden University, The Netherlands. He published on Indology, Hindu and Buddhist Iconography, and restarted the Annual Bibliography of Indian Archaeology (ABIA), now on line (Brill).