The Roots of Tantra

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The Roots of Tantra

Author	: Katherine Anne Harper
File Size	: 44,8 Mb
Publisher	: State University of New York Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 01 February 2012
ISBN	: 9780791488904
Pages	: 281 pages

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The Roots of Tantra by Katherine Anne Harper Book PDF Summary

Among the many spiritual traditions born and developed in India, Tantra has been the most difficult to define. Almost everything about it its major characteristics, its sources, its relationships to other religions, even its practices are debated among sc

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The Origins of Yoga and Tantra by Geoffrey Samuel

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Tantra by Georg Feuerstein, Ph.D.

A leading yoga researcher offers a clear and lively introduction to the history, philosophy, and practice of the Tantric spiritual tradition Tantra—often associated with Kundalini Yoga—is a fundamental dimension of Hinduism, emphasizing the cultivation of “divine power” (shakti) as a path to infinite bliss. Tantra has been widely

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Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism by Christian K. Wedemeyer

Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism fundamentally rethinks the nature of the transgressive theories and practices of the Buddhist Tantric traditions, challenging the notion that the Tantras were “marginal” or primitive and situating them instead—both ideologically and institutionally—within larger trends in mainstream Buddhist and Indian culture. Critically surveying prior

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