Routledge, 2022. — 230 p. This book explores the cross- and trans-cultural dialectic between Tantra and intersecting ‘magical’ and ‘shamanic’ practices associated with vernacular religions across Monsoon Asia. With a chronological frame going from the mediaeval Indic period up to the present, a wide geographical framework, and through the dialogue between various disciplines,...
London : Rider, 1966. Revised Edition. Reprinted 1983. — 348 p. — ISBN: 0877282536. This book breaks fresh ground: it is the first major study by an initiate of the complex field of Hindu and Buddhist tantrism. The very delicate position of the tantrics, their teaching and literature, has caused Indian and Western writers to give them a wide berth. The powerful erotic and...
Calcutta: Shrimati Mira Basu Publ., 1976. — 131 p. Басу Маноранджан. Тантра (на англ. яз.) Historical Retrospect. Tattva-Mantra-Kala. Tantras - Critique of Experience. Tantras, Ways of Realization: Freedom. Tantras and the Modern Age.
2nd Revised Edition — South Asia Books, 2006. — 482 p. In this book, the author presents in historical outline, the genesis, development and structural analysis of the Tantric tradition in India and its place in the Indian religious and philosophical systems. It studies the different aspects of Tantrism, its vastness and intricacies, its heterogeneous and contradictory elements...
Jawahar Nagar, Delhi, 1987. — 307 p. ISBN: 81-208-0596-8 Cutting across distinctions of schools and types, the author explains the central feature of Kashmir Shaivism: the creative pulse of the all pervasive Absolute Consciousness called Spanda - creative activity of Absolute Consciousness - God. This is an important branch of the Hindu Tantras, and Dyczkowski provides new...
Watkins Media Limited, 2025. — 407 р. — ISBN: 978-1-84899-435-5 Take the ultimate culinary adventure across India Join Michelin-starred chef Rohit Ghai in a celebration of the incredible flavours and local delicacies of 10 regions of India. Packed with innovative yet easy-to-make dishes, this cookbook explores the key ingredients and influences of each area, with a selection of...
Brill, 2020. — 632 p. — (Gonda Indological Studies 22). Academic study of the tantric traditions has blossomed in recent decades, in no small measure thanks to the magisterial contributions of Alexis G. J. S. Sanderson, until 2015 Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics at Oxford University. This collection of essays honours him and touches several fields of Indology...
Ibis Press, 2011. — 384 p. Tantra is one of the most misunderstood of the esoteric disciplines. In order to get a clear idea as to the nature of Tantric ritual and belief it is necessary to go where Tantra is still practiced and from where important Tantric teachings originated a thousand years ago: the island of Java in present-day Indonesia. This book illustrates the history of...
Ibis Press, 2011. — 384 p. Tantra is one of the most misunderstood of the esoteric disciplines. In order to get a clear idea as to the nature of Tantric ritual and belief it is necessary to go where Tantra is still practiced and from where important Tantric teachings originated a thousand years ago: the island of Java in present-day Indonesia. This book illustrates the history of...
Routledge, 2020. — 212 p. This book analyzes the contemporary global revival of Nondual Śaivism, a thousand-year-old medieval Hindu religious philosophy. Providing a historical overview of the seminal people and groups responsible for the revival, the book compares the tradition’s medieval Indian origins to modern forms, which are situated within distinctively contemporary...
Routledge, 2020. — 212 p. This book analyzes the contemporary global revival of Nondual Śaivism, a thousand-year-old medieval Hindu religious philosophy. Providing a historical overview of the seminal people and groups responsible for the revival, the book compares the tradition’s medieval Indian origins to modern forms, which are situated within distinctively contemporary...
Translated by Jacques Gontier. — N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1990. — 464 p. — (The SUNY series in the Shaiva Traditions of Kashmir). — ISBN 0-7914-0257-6. This book is about the power of the Word conceived as the main and most effective aspect of divine energy. It is the only systematic study in English of notions concerning the Word (Vac) as these are expounded...
The Himalayan Institute Press, 1998. — 220 p. The unfoldment of shakti, the power inherent in the core of our being, is the key to all worldly and spiritual success. All spiritual traditions, particularly tantra, aim at awakening this dormant power within us. Because it is so vital to our inner growth, without having an in-depth knowledge of the role of shakti, the study and...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 1272 p. Since the earliest encounters between tantric traditions and Western scholars of religion, tantra has posed a challenge. The representation of tantra, whether in Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Tibet, or Japan, has tended to emphasize the antinomian, decadent aspects, which, as attention-grabbing as they were for audiences in the West, created a...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 1272 p. Since the earliest encounters between tantric traditions and Western scholars of religion, tantra has posed a challenge. The representation of tantra, whether in Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Tibet, or Japan, has tended to emphasize the antinomian, decadent aspects, which, as attention-grabbing as they were for audiences in the West, created a...
New Delhi: D.K. Printworld, 1994, 1998. — (Tantra in Contemporary Researches). — ISBN: 81-246-0097-X. This is a brilliant cultural-anthropological study exploring those hedonistic aspects of the pan-Indian heritage which, represented by centuries of the non-Vedic, Tantric tradition, affirm that the pleasurable, especially the sexually pleasurable, is natural as a means to...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 234 p. Illness and Immortality examines a medieval Sanskrit text, the Netra Tantra, which is devoted to health and healing through a yogic practice dedicated to the chanting of mantras, the building of mandalas, and meditation. Patricia Sauthoff examines the role of such ritual elements in rites to alleviate illness and death. She includes...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 234 p. Illness and Immortality examines a medieval Sanskrit text, the Netra Tantra, which is devoted to health and healing through a yogic practice dedicated to the chanting of mantras, the building of mandalas, and meditation. Patricia Sauthoff examines the role of such ritual elements in rites to alleviate illness and death. She includes...
Tokyo: University of Tokyo, Institute of Oriental Languages, 2009. — 562 p. Шинго Эйноо (ред.) Зарождение и развитие тантризма (на англ. яз.) From kamas to siddhis — Tendencies in the Development of Ritual towards Tantrism. The Saiva Age — The Rise and Dominance of Saivism during the Early Medieval Period. Who is Candesa? Nagabodhi’s Srı-guhyasamajamandalopayika-vimsati-vidhi —...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 385 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–046181–2. Early Tantric Medicine looks at a traditional medical system that flourished over 1,000 years ago in India. The Garuda Tantras had a powerful influence on traditional medicine for snakebite, and some of their practices remain popular to this day. Snakebite may sound like a rare and exotic phenomenon, but in India...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 360 p. Tantra has formed an integral part of Asian religious history for centuries, but since "Arthur Avalon" introduced the concept to a global readership in the early twentieth century, Tantric traditions have exploded in popularity. While it was long believed that Sir John Woodroffe stood behind Avalon, it was in fact mainly a collaboration...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 360 p. Tantra has formed an integral part of Asian religious history for centuries, but since "Arthur Avalon" introduced the concept to a global readership in the early twentieth century, Tantric traditions have exploded in popularity. While it was long believed that Sir John Woodroffe stood behind Avalon, it was in fact mainly a collaboration...
Manticore Press, 2018. — 246 p. Tantra. The word conjures forth a million images - including sex, transgressive practices, and the occult. But how accurate are these portrayals, and how do they compare to actual Tantric practices in India? To the casual observer, Tantra appears to partake of an oppositional role in regard to Vedic teachings, but this conceals a much more...
University of California Press, 2003. — 388 p. A complex body of religious practices that spread throughout the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions; a form of spirituality that seemingly combines sexuality, sensual pleasure, and the full range of physical experience with the religious life—Tantra has held a central yet conflicted role within the Western imagination ever since the...
Пер. с франц. Андрея Игнатьева. — М.: Касталия, 2019. — 234 с. Книга Андре Паду «Понять тантризм» на сей день является лучшим обобщающим трудом, посвященным теме индуистской Тантры. Ее автор, французский индолог с мировым именем, фактически подводит итоги изучения феномена тантризма во всей западной науке за полтора столетия. Работу Паду отличает ясный, простой и доступный...
Комментарии