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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"tantra"”.
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Interpreting the Vajra Rosary: Truth and Method Meets Wisdom and Method
… or Vajra Rosary, one of the explanatory Tantras of the Buddhist Guhyasamaja, or Secret Community, Tantric system, and a partial translation of Alamkakalasa's Commentary, sets out a novel hermeneutic method by which twenty-first century scholars of religion might approach the …
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Bhakti Religion and Tantric Magic in Mughal India: Kacchvahas, Ramanandis, and Naths, circa 1500-1700
… understudied historical relationships with Tantra, Yoga, and Sufism. Specifically, this thesis explains the phenomenal rise of bhakti in early modern north India as a process of identity and community formation fundamentally connected to Sufi-inflected critiques of tantric and yogic …
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The Rise and Rites of Tantric Kingship in the Sāmrājyalakṣmīpīṭhikā, a Hybrid Nibandha from Vijayanagara
… well-balanced proportion with its first part on Tantra. Thus, I propose to call the text a hybrid compilation (nibandha) of kingship and Tantric practices. The primary aim of this dissertation would, therefore, be to justify my argument on why I call the text “hybrid”. Firstly, it will attempt to …
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Journey with Ganapati : a media exploration and analysis of Hindu religious ritual components
… the symbolism of mantra, yantra, and tantra with the tools of computer graphics, animation, high speed photography, and to entice the imagery in a cocoon of sound spirals with the mechanics of structural and layered sound. To attempt a marriage of the observed ethnographic ritual with …
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Theurgy and the Snake: The Yoga Kalandar and Bengali Sufism
A radically alternative vision of the fakir is given in surviving medieval (Bng. madhya-ẏug, “Middle Age”) and pre-modern textual sources that predate and coincide with the colonial period in Bengal, such as the widely influential 17th century Yoga Kalandar text as well as Bāul oral traditions …
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The Role of Devotion (mos gus) in Tibetan Heart Essence Traditions: Devotional Affect and Its Relationship to Dzogchen’s Foundational Practices (rdzogs chen)
The Role of Devotion (mos gus) in Tibetan Heart Essence Traditions: Devotional Affect and Its Relationship to Dzogchen’s Foundational Practices (rdzogs chen) examines how devotion, faith (dad pa), and awakened mind (byang chub kyi sems) function philosophically and epistemologically and in …
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Fear and Fruition: Bhairava in Text, Art, and Practice
<p>The following dissertation addresses the origins, development, and contemporary living religious world of the Hindu deity Bhairava. An ambivalent deity associated both with antinomian and orthoprax Hinduism, his example is unusual, even unique. Particularly important in the sacred Hindu city of …
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Becoming God, Becoming the Buddha: The Relation of Identity and Praxis in the Thought of Maximus the Confessor and Kūkai
My dissertation investigates the concept of ‘divinization’, or becoming like (or identical to) God or the Buddha in the thought of two early medieval monk-philosophers from radically different religious-philosophical traditions, Maximus the Confessor (580-662 CE) and Kukai (774-835 CE). I use this …
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The Erotic, the Speculative, and the Surreal: Considering the Spiritual as a Site of (Modal) Knowledge Cultivation through the lens of a Queer Black Feminist Radical Imagination
This thesis is an exploration of what it may mean to respond to the decolonial question, and the murky ontological and epistemological waters such a response may take us in to. I make the case that modern movements towards freedom and liberation are, by virtue of epistemicide, based in scientific …