Sahaja: in quest of the innate, an esoteric fusion in Bengali poetry through the Charya and the Baul songs

Mukherjee, Prithwindra

Sahaja (sahajata) has been the contribution of Bengal on the heroic path of Buddhist Tantra. Behind an apparently primitive poetry, enigmatic words belonging to a twilight gamut of codes reveal a forest of symbols. Mostly composed earlier than the 9th century, the Charyapadas bear the signature of eminent Buddhist teachers like Saraha, Kanha, Luypada. There has been a possible interaction betwe...

Publisher: Aditya Prakashan

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