By Katherine Anne Harper,Robert L. Brown
Among the numerous religious traditions born and constructed in India, Tantra has been the main tough to outline. virtually every little thing approximately it—its significant features, its resources, its relationships to different religions, even its practices—are debated between students. furthermore, Tantrism isn't really limited to any specific faith, yet is a suite of ideals and practices that looks in various religions, together with Hinduism and Buddhism. This ebook explores essentially the most arguable features of Tantra, its assets or roots, in particular in regard to Hinduism. The essays specialize in the heritage and improvement of Tantra, the paintings heritage and archaeology of Tantra, the Vedas and Tantra, and texts and Tantra. utilizing quite a few disciplinary and methodological methods, from heritage to artwork historical past and non secular reviews to textual reports, students supply either extensive overviews of the beginnings of Tantra and certain analyses of particular texts, authors, artwork works, and rituals.
Katherine Anne Harper is affiliate Professor of artwork heritage at Loyola Marymount collage 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 college of California, la and the Curator of Southeast Asian paintings on the la County Museum of paintings. he's the writer of The Dvaravati Wheels of the legislation and the Indianization of South East Asia, and editor of Ganesh: experiences of an Asian God, additionally released through SUNY Press, and artwork from Thailand.
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