By Katherine Anne Harper,Robert L. Brown
Among the various non secular traditions born and built in India, Tantra has been the main tricky to outline. nearly every little thing approximately it—its significant features, its assets, its relationships to different religions, even its practices—are debated between students. moreover, Tantrism isn't restrained to any specific faith, yet is a collection of ideals and practices that looks in numerous religions, together with Hinduism and Buddhism. This booklet explores probably the most debatable points of Tantra, its assets or roots, in particular in regard to Hinduism. The essays concentrate on the heritage and improvement of Tantra, the paintings historical past and archaeology of Tantra, the Vedas and Tantra, and texts and Tantra. utilizing a variety of disciplinary and methodological techniques, from historical past to artwork background and spiritual stories to textual stories, students offer either large overviews of the beginnings of Tantra and distinct analyses of particular texts, authors, paintings works, and rituals.
Katherine Anne Harper is affiliate Professor of paintings background at Loyola Marymount college and the writer of The Iconography of the Saptamatrikas: Seven Hindu Goddesses of non secular Transformation.
Robert L. Brown is Professor of artwork heritage on the collage of California, l. a. and the Curator of Southeast Asian paintings on the l. a. County Museum of artwork. he's the writer of The Dvaravati Wheels of the legislation and the Indianization of South East Asia, and editor of Ganesh: reviews of an Asian God, additionally released via SUNY Press, and paintings from Thailand.
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