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EARLY TANTRA SERIES - T130 - THE BRAHMAYAMALATANTRA OR PICUMATA. VOLUME II. - THE RELIGIOUS OBSERVAN
Efeo - EAN : 9782855391533
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EAN : 9782855391533
Paru le : 30 juin 2015
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- EAN13 : 9782855391533
- Réf. éditeur : CI 130
- Collection : COLL. INDOLOGIE
- Editeur : Efeo
- Date Parution : 30 juin 2015
- Disponibilite : Disponible
- Barème de remise : NS
- Nombre de pages : 373
- Format : 2.00 x 17.00 x 24.50 cm
- Poids : 650gr
- Interdit de retour : Retour interdit
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Résumé :
The Brahmayamalatantra (aka Picumata) is probably one of the earliest surviving Saiva tantras, and possibly the earliest one known to us of the Bhairavatantra tradition. 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 for the chaste Carubhojin, and on a combination of these for the Mixed Practitioner. This unique system of sadhakas marks an early phase in the development of classification of practitioners seeking liberation and magical powers, and gives us an insight into the tantric world of extremes: of rule-bound sexual encounters involving several female partners and highly impure substances on the one hand, and of asceticism, strict vegetarianism and chastity on the other.
The introduction deals with the main topics raised by the selected chapters, as well as with problems of the sometimes extremely non-standard (Aisa) Sanskrit that the oldest manuscript transmits. One of the appendices provides a summary of the first twenty-five chapters (about one quarter of the Brahmayamala) to facilitate further study. The extensive index includes all important keywords and all major Aisa phenomena.
About the Editor
After studies in Budapest, Csaba Kiss obtained his doctorate from Oxford University for his edition of selected chapters of the Matsyendrasamhita, a thir-teenth-century Saiva tantric text on yoga. He joined the Early Tantra Project in 2008 to produce this volume, and is currently research assistant at ELTE University, Budapest, working on texts of the tantric Kubjik tradition and of the jativiveka genre.
