The tantric body: the secret tradition of Hindu religion
Providing a complete understanding of tantra's mysteries, Gavin Flood argues that within tantra the body is more than just a sexual entity, it is a vehicle for the spirituality that is fundamental to people's minds.
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| Summary: | Providing a complete understanding of tantra's mysteries, Gavin Flood argues that within tantra the body is more than just a sexual entity, it is a vehicle for the spirituality that is fundamental to people's minds. |
| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]) and index |
| Physical Description: | xi, 244 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 9781845110116 1845110110 1845110129 9781845110123 |
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| adam_text | Contents
Preface
ix
PART
ι
Theory, Text and History
ι
Introduction. The Body as Text
3
Tantra,
Tradition and the Body
7
Reading
Strategtes:
Text
15
Reading Strategies:
Hody
20
Experience and Asceticism
24
The Argument
oţ
the Hook
27
2
The
Vedic
Body
31
77ГЃ
Political and Social (Context
32
Legal Discourse yj
Political Discourse
42
The Highest Good
45
3
The Tantric Revelation
I altdiiy oj Tantric Revelation
50
Pañcaratra
Revelation
53
Satia
Revelation
55
d/ií/
Tradition
60
Tantrtc
Theology of Revelation
62
Revelation and Doctrine
66
Tantric Civilisation
7і
The Divinisation
of the Body as Root Metaphor
74
Tantric Polity
76
The Tantric Temple
81
Tantra
and Erotic Sculpture
83
Possession
87
PART II The Body as Text
5
The
Pañcaratra
99
Emanationist
Cosmology
101
The Purification of the Body
106
The Bhutaiuddhi in the Tantric Revelation
108
The
Divinisation
of the Body
113
Inner Worship
116
External Worship
118
*
6
Saiva
Siddhänta
120
Śa
iva
Siddhänta
Doctrine
12.2,
The Tattva Hierarchy
126
The Six Paths
129
The Ritual Process: Initiation
131
The Ritual Process: Daily Rites
138
The Ritual Process: Behaviour
144
7
Ecstatic
Tantra
146
Absolute Subjectivity and index tea
lity
147
The Circle of Deities in the Body
154
Kundaltni and the Cakras
157
Two Ritual Systems
162
8
The Tantric Imagination I7I
Vision
172
Gesture and Utterance
174
Icon
176
Indextcaltty
178
Reading
180
Epilogue l8_
Appendix: The jfayakhya-samhita
Abbreviations and Sources
***
Notes U>H
Suggested Further Reading
· -*
Index -1
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Contents
Preface
ix
PART
ι
Theory, Text and History
ι
Introduction. The Body as Text
3
Tantra,
Tradition and the Body
7
Reading
Strategtes:
'Text
15
Reading Strategies:
Hody
20
Experience and Asceticism
24
The Argument
oţ
the Hook
27
2
The
Vedic
Body
31
77ГЃ
Political and Social (Context
32
Legal Discourse yj
Political Discourse
42
The Highest Good
45
3
The Tantric Revelation
I altdiiy oj Tantric Revelation
50
Pañcaratra
Revelation
53
Satia
Revelation
55
d/ií/
Tradition
60
Tantrtc
Theology of Revelation
62
Revelation and Doctrine
66
Tantric Civilisation
7і
The Divinisation
of the Body as Root Metaphor
74
Tantric Polity
76
The Tantric Temple
81
Tantra
and Erotic Sculpture
83
Possession
87
PART II The Body as Text
5
The
Pañcaratra
99
Emanationist
Cosmology
101
The Purification of the Body
106
The Bhutaiuddhi in the Tantric Revelation
108
The
Divinisation
of the Body
113
Inner Worship
116
External Worship
118
*
6
Saiva
Siddhänta
120
Śa
iva
Siddhänta
Doctrine
12.2,
The Tattva Hierarchy
126
The Six Paths
129
The Ritual Process: Initiation
131
The Ritual Process: Daily Rites
138
The Ritual Process: Behaviour
144
7
Ecstatic
Tantra
146
Absolute Subjectivity and index tea
lity
147
The Circle of Deities in the Body
154
Kundaltni and the Cakras
157
Two Ritual Systems
162
8
The Tantric Imagination I7I
Vision
172
Gesture and Utterance
174
Icon
176
Indextcaltty
178
Reading
180
Epilogue l8_
Appendix: The jfayakhya-samhita
Abbreviations and Sources
***
Notes U>H
Suggested Further Reading
·'-*
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