Quest and reflections of the Sakti tattva: a study of the Sakti Siddhanta Agamic Sahasranama & Stotra Mimamsa

Raina, Chaman Lal

ISBN: 9789383221431, 9383221437

A study of the Agamic-Sakti Siddhanta, Sahasranama-Paddhati and Stotram for understanding and analyzing the 'Sakti Tattva' popularly adored as the Divine Mother. This is to understood as the main source of all that exists, which is responsible for the creation of the universal flux, for the creation of the universal flux, with its sustenance power and further assimilating it within the Primal s...

Kalikrama and Abhinavagupta: the epistemological ethos of a tantric tradition

Rastogi, Navjivan

ISBN: 9788124607572, 8124607575

The Krama school of the Trika Saivism of Kashmir, more familiar as Kalikrama in the contemporary parlance, has turned out to be the most crucial among the monistic. Saiva traditions of medieval Kashmir after the Pratyabhijna school, a scenario people could hardly envisage six decades back when it first came to the notice of modern scholarship. The doctrine of Kalikrama, lit. sequential order of...

An introduction to Tantric philosophy: The Paramarthasara of Abhinavagupta, with the comm. of Yogaraja, introd., notes, critically rev. Sanskrit text, appendix, indices by Lyne ...

ISBN: 9781032655499, 1032655496

....-Boudon. Series Editor: Gavin Flood. The Paramarthasara, or 'Essence of Ultimate Reality', is a work of the Kashmirian polymath Abhinavagupta (tenth-eleventh centuries).

The Brahmayamalatantra or Picumata, Vol.I: chapters 1-2, 39-40 & 83, revelation, ritual, and material culture in an early Saiva Tantra

Hatley, Shaman

ISBN: 9788184702262, 8184702264

It is one of the earliest surviving goddess-oriented (sakta) tantras, its core probably dating back to the late seventh or early eighth century. The work is transmitted in a beautiful Nepalese palm-leaf manuscript of 11th century, which forms the basis for its critical edition. This volume includes the first published edition and annotated translation. ;

The Brahmayamalatantra or Picumata, Vol.II: the religious observances and sexual rituals of the tantric practitioner: chapters 3, 21, and 45, a critical edn. and annotated tr. b...

ISBN: 9788184702071, 8184702078

...Kiss.;The present volume contains a critical edition and annotated translation of three of its chapters: one on the central mandala of the cult, one on preliminary religious observances (vrata) prescribed for all practitioners (sadhaka), and one on instructions for each individual category of sadhaka -- instructions on transgressive sexual rituals for the Talaka, on strict rules of conduct f...

Change, continuity and complexity: The Mahavidyas in East Indian Sakta traditions

Shin, Jae-Eun

ISBN: 9788193560914, 8193560914

Based on a close analysis of Puranas, Tantras and inscriptional evidence, and on extensive field research on archaeological remains as well as sacred sites, the volume discusses the two trajectories of the Mahavidyas in eastern Sakta traditions.

Mayatantram: Tantra sangraha, with 'Nirmala' Hindi tr., comm. and ed. by Rupesh Kumar Cauhan

ISBN: 9788121804189, 8121804183

A descriptive catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts in the collection of the Asiatic Society: The Asiatic Society collection, Vol.1: Tantra manuscripts, ed. by Satya Ranjan Banerje...

ISBN: 9789381574348, 9381574340

...comp. by Bibekananda Banerjee.

Principles of tantra, 2 parts

Avalon, Arthur

ISBN: 9788189580438, 8189580434

Early tantric Vaisnavism: three newly discovered works of the Pancaratra, the Svayambhuvapancaratra, Devamrtapancaratra and Astadasavidhana, critically ed. from their 11th and...

ISBN: 9788184702064, 818470206X

...12th-century Nepalese palm-leaf manuscripts with an introduction and notes, by Diwakar Acharya.;The three works presented in this volume are hitherto unpublished texts of great significance for the early history of tantric Vaisnavism, and we have grounds for supposing that they are older than any hitherto published Vaisnava Tantras. They preserve archaic elements not found in other Pancaratr...

Gandharvatantram, ed. by Ramkumar Rai

Gandharvatantram, with Hindi comm. `Jnanvati' and ind. by Radheshyam Chaturvedi

The garland of letters: essays on Tantra/Mantra sastra

Woodroffe, Sir John (Arthur Avalon)

ISBN: 9788178224008, 8178224003

Gautamiyatantram, by Gautam, ed. by Bhagirath Jha

Gautmiyatantram of Maharsi Gautam, with Hindi tr. by SN Khandelwal, ed. by Shri Bhagirath Jha

ISBN: 9788170804413, 8170804418

Gyanarnavatantram of Isvarproktam (Srividyavivaranatmakum), text with Hindi tr. by S.N. Khandelwal

ISBN: 9789381608227, 9381608229

In the belly of the fish: Matsyendranatha and the chakra of the Yoginis, tr. from the Spanish by Michael B Miller

Dupuis, Stella

ISBN: 9788177699630, 8177699636

In this book, the author takes the reader into the very secret world of Tantra. The main theme revolves around the fish, archetype of fertility and transformation, expresed in one form or another from the most ancient times by the major religions.

Kalitantram, with Hindi comm. and ed. by Laksmidattsastri Malviya

Kamakhyatantra, text with introduction and tr. into Hindi by S.N. Khandelval

ISBN: 9788170804826, 8170804825

Tantra, Veda and mysticism

Singh, L.P.

ISBN: 9789354390050, 9354390056

The book is a collection of some of the papers that were presented by the author at various international and National Conferences and Seminars. The theme that runs in these papers essentially try to explain that life is a narrative of cosmic drama of which Cosmic Consciousness (Brahman) is the choreographer and witnessing entity.