This dissertation centers on an examination of an early medieval Tantric ritual manual, the Svacchandatantra, and its commentary by the late Tenth/early Eleventh-Century theologian, Ksemar aja. The Svacchandatantra was an important ritual manual for religious specialists of Tantric Śaivite religious traditions in Kashmir. In this study, I demonstrate how the text and commentary construct notions of a Tantric Śaivite self through the categories of the individual body, mind, and society. In ascertaining these categories, I take as a point of departure an adage frequently quoted by the exegetes of the Trika, a form of non-dual Śaivism in medieval Kashmir, that one should be privately Kaula, publicly Śaiva and Vedic in one\u27s social interacti...
Divinisation rituals establishing oneness between practitioners and divinities are common across Tan...
Divinisation rituals establishing oneness between practitioners and divinities are common across Tan...
Divinisation rituals establishing oneness between practitioners and divinities are common across Tan...
This dissertation centers on an examination of an early medieval Tantric ritual manual, the Svacchan...
This dissertation consists of a translation of the Agamādhikāra of the Īśvara Pratyabhijñā Vivrti Vi...
This dissertation consists of a translation of the Agamādhikāra of the Īśvara Pratyabhijñā Vivrti Vi...
This work examines ritual, cosmology, and divinization as articulated in select passages of the Svac...
This work examines ritual, cosmology, and divinization as articulated in select passages of the Svac...
The present work comprises a detailed study of specific terms of discourse in the pre-twelfth centur...
The present work comprises a detailed study of specific terms of discourse in the pre-twelfth centur...
The present work comprises a detailed study of specific terms of discourse in the pre-twelfth centur...
Buddhist texts perpetually remind readers to realize the pervasive nature of suffering by reflecting...
In recent decades, historians of religions have turned to, and developed, entirely new methodologies...
In recent decades, historians of religions have turned to, and developed, entirely new methodologies...
The little studied Sāmrājyalakṣmīpīṭhikā is known to a small number of Sanskritists and historians a...
Divinisation rituals establishing oneness between practitioners and divinities are common across Tan...
Divinisation rituals establishing oneness between practitioners and divinities are common across Tan...
Divinisation rituals establishing oneness between practitioners and divinities are common across Tan...
This dissertation centers on an examination of an early medieval Tantric ritual manual, the Svacchan...
This dissertation consists of a translation of the Agamādhikāra of the Īśvara Pratyabhijñā Vivrti Vi...
This dissertation consists of a translation of the Agamādhikāra of the Īśvara Pratyabhijñā Vivrti Vi...
This work examines ritual, cosmology, and divinization as articulated in select passages of the Svac...
This work examines ritual, cosmology, and divinization as articulated in select passages of the Svac...
The present work comprises a detailed study of specific terms of discourse in the pre-twelfth centur...
The present work comprises a detailed study of specific terms of discourse in the pre-twelfth centur...
The present work comprises a detailed study of specific terms of discourse in the pre-twelfth centur...
Buddhist texts perpetually remind readers to realize the pervasive nature of suffering by reflecting...
In recent decades, historians of religions have turned to, and developed, entirely new methodologies...
In recent decades, historians of religions have turned to, and developed, entirely new methodologies...
The little studied Sāmrājyalakṣmīpīṭhikā is known to a small number of Sanskritists and historians a...
Divinisation rituals establishing oneness between practitioners and divinities are common across Tan...
Divinisation rituals establishing oneness between practitioners and divinities are common across Tan...
Divinisation rituals establishing oneness between practitioners and divinities are common across Tan...