Tantric Teachings of the Kālikā Purāṇa

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-47029-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 54, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 653 g

Reihe: Brill's Indological Library

At a lonely place, in a remote hermitage somewhere in the Himalaya, the god Siva is teaching Tantric worship to his humiliated sons, who want to regain their divine status: “You should worship the goddess Mahamaya Kalika”. Remarkable are his ‘talks’ about preliminary rituals, mudras, and animal as well as human sacrifice. The Tantric Teachings form the inner core of the Kalika Purana, i.e. ‘Old Stories about Kalika’, composed by a learned Brahmin about a thousand years ago in Kamarupa (Assam). Careful listening to the text has been my first priority when presenting the relevant passages in text and translation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kooij, Karel R. van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Hinduismus Hinduismus: Heilige Texte & Traditionsliteratur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Abbreviations

1 Date, Environment and Narrative Structure

1 A Neglected Manuscript

2 A Sacrificial Site in Kathmandu

3 Speakers, Audiences, Locations

4 Summary and Conclusions

2 Preliminaries

1 Preparation (purascara?a)

2 Purification (bhutasuddhi), Cosmic Throne (yogapi?ha)

3 Yoga Body, cakra System

4 Devotion (bhakti)

5 ‘Left’ and ‘Right Method’ (vamabhava, dak?i?abhava)

3 Ritual Behaviour

1 Reverence (namaskara)

2 Gesture (mudra)

3 Sitting Posture (asana)

4 Seat (asana)

4 Mantra

1 Selection of the Right mantra (mantrasiddhi)

2 Application on the Body (nyasa)

3 Harnessing (kavaca)

4 Device (yantra)

5 Blood-Chapter

1 Gift of the Tribute (balidana)

2 Animal and Human Sacrifice

3 Human Sacrifice in Nepal

6 Pantheon

1 Contexts

2 Iconology

References

General Index

Über Autor(innen)

Karel R. van Kooij, Ph.D. (Utrecht 1972), is Professor Emeritus of Leiden University, The Netherlands. He published on Indology, Hindu and Buddhist Iconography, and restarted the Annual Bibliography of Indian Archaeology (ABIA), now on line (Brill).