Tantra, Magic, and Vernacular Religions in Monsoon Asia: Texts, Practices, and Practitioners from the Margins

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of contributor -- Acknowledgement -- Introduction -- Framing the intersection between Tantra, magic, and vernacular religions in Monsoon Asia -- Summaries of the chapters -- Notes -- Ch...

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Main Author: Acri, Andrea (Author)
Contributors: Rosati, Paolo E. (Contributor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Milton Taylor & Francis Group 2022
In:Year: 2022
Series/Journal:Routledge Studies in Tantric Traditions Ser.
Further subjects:B Electronic books
B Tantrism-Doctrines
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Parallel Edition:Erscheint auch als: 9781032251288
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Summary:Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of contributor -- Acknowledgement -- Introduction -- Framing the intersection between Tantra, magic, and vernacular religions in Monsoon Asia -- Summaries of the chapters -- Notes -- Chapter 1: More pre-Tantric sources of Tantrism: Skulls and skull-cups -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Is the Śaiva skull-cup use actually sourced in the Dharmaśāstras? -- 1.3 Bones, skulls, demons, and the dead -- 1.4 Skulls-Liminal signs of the spirit world -- 1.5 Conclusion -- Notes -- Primary sources -- Chapter 2: Charnel ground items, śmāśānika s, and the question of the magical substratum of the early Tantras -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Magical recipes, the magical substratum, and animism -- 2.3 Charnel ground items and the question of the magical substratum -- 2.3.1 Human flesh ( mahāmāṃsa) -- 2.3.2 Fire taken from a cremation pyre, from a caṇḍāla, etc . -- 2.3.3 Crematory shroud (śmaśānakarpaṭa, mṛtakavāsa, etc .) -- 2.3.4 Flowers from a corpse (śmaśāna-nirmālya) -- 2.3.5 Throwing the cremation ground ash (bhasman) -- 2.3.6 Skulls of a man killed by a weapon or impaled on a stake -- 2.4 The origin of skull-magic: Brahmanical, Tantric, or indigenous? -- 2.5 Who were the pre-Tantric śmāśānika practitioners? -- 2.6 Conclusion -- Notes -- Primary sources -- Chapter 3: Shamans and Bhūta Tāntrikas: A shared genealogy? -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The origin of a critical term -- 3.3 Shamanism before Buddhism -- 3.4 Who can be referred to as a shaman? -- 3.5 The origins of Tantric traditions -- 3.6 Shamans and Tāntrikas: Initial notes on shared practices -- 3.7 Coming full-circle: śramaṇa s, shamans, and tāntrika s -- Notes -- Primary sources.
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ISBN:1000686442