Tantric Studies: Fruits of A Franco-German Project on Early Tantra
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Collection Indologie
Book: 131Author
Edition
1st. ed.
Publisher
ISBN
8184702116, 9788184702118
Length
xxix+306p., 10 Colour; 10 B/W Plates; Index; 25m.
Subjects
This compendium of eight papers, seeks to discover the interrelationships and common ritual syntax of the Saiva, Buddhist, Vaisnava and Saura traditions of Tantra, with a particular emphasis on the Buddhist Manjusriyamulakalpa and the Saiva Nisvasatattvasamhita.
It also throws light on the Saiva tattvas and their evolution, yogini-temples, alphabet-deities, an early treatise of snake-related magic, iconographic prescriptions in early pratisthatantras, the ...
