The tantric body : the secret tradition of Hindu religion /: the secret tradition of Hindu religion. (2006)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Gavin Flood.
• Other Names: Flood, Gavin D, 1954-
• Contents: Pt. Theory, text and history -- 1. Introduction : the body as text -- Tantra, tradition and the body -- Reading strategies : text -- Reading strategies : body -- Experience and asceticism -- The argument of the book -- 2. The vedic body -- The political and social context -- Legal discourse -- Political discourse -- The highest good -- 3. The tantric revelation -- The validity of tantric revelation -- The Pāñcarātra revelation -- The Śaiva revelation -- Text and tradition -- The tantric theology of revelation -- Revelation and doctrine -- 4. Tantric civilisation -- The divinisation of the body as root metaphor -- Tantric polity -- The tantric temple -- Tantra and erotic sculpture -- Possession -- pt. II. The body as text -- 5. The Pāñcarātra -- Emanationist cosmology -- The purification of the body -- The Bhūtaśuddhi in the tantric revelation -- The divinisation of the body -- Inner worship -- External worship -- 6. Śaiva Siddhānta -- Śaiva Siddhānta doctrine -- The tattva hierarchy -- The six paths -- The ritual process : initiation -- The ritual process : daily rites -- The ritual process : behaviour -- 7. Ecstatic tantra -- Absolute subjectivity and indexicality -- The circle of deities in the body -- Kuṇḍalinī and the cakras -- Two ritual systems -- 8. The tantric imagination -- Vision -- Gesture and utterance -- Icon -- Indexicality -- Reading -- Epilogue -- Appendix. The Jayākhya-saṃhitā.
• Publisher Details: London New York : I.B. Tauris Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2006
• Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 244 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 294.5/514; Tantrism -- Doctrines; Human body -- Religious aspects -- Tantrism; Tantrism -- Rituals -- Texts -- History and criticism; RELIGION -- Hinduism -- General; Tantrism -- Doctrines; Tantrismus; Leiblichkeit -- Tantrismus; Tantrismus -- Leiblichkeit; Tantrismus; Körperlichkeit -- Hinduismus; Tantrismus; Körperbild -- Tantrismus; Tantra's; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1423768264; 9781423768265; 9781845110116; 1845110110; 9781845110123; 1845110129; 9780857717306; 0857717308
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (page 235) and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.