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Gough Ellen - Making A Mantra Tantric Ritual And Renunciation On The Jain Path To Liberation - Paperback
Gough Ellen - Making A Mantra Tantric Ritual And Renunciation On The Jain Path To Liberation - Paperback
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Description: Jainism originated in India and shares some features with Buddhism and Hinduism but it is a distinct tradition with its own key texts art rituals beliefs and history. One important way it has often been distinguished from Buddhism and Hinduism is through the highly contested category of Tantra: Jainism unlike the others does not contain a tantric path to liberation. But in Making a Mantra historian of religions Ellen Gough refines and challenges our understanding of Tantra by looking at the development over two millennia of a Jain incantation or mantra that evolved from an auspicious invocation in a second - century text into a key component of mendicant initiations and meditations that continue to this day. Typically Jainism is characterized as a celibate ascetic path to liberation in which one destroys karma through austerities while the tantric path to liberation is characterized as embracing the pleasures of the material world requiring the ritual use of mantras to destroy karma. Gough however argues that asceticism and Tantra should not be viewed in opposition to one another. She does so by showing that Jains perform tantric rituals of initiation and meditation on mantras and ma? ? alas. Jainism includes kinds of tantric practices Gough provocatively argues because tantric practices are a logical extension of the ascetic path to liberation.
Title: Making A Mantra Tantric Ritual And Renunciation On The Jain Path To Liberation
Author(s): Gough Ellen
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226767062
Pages: 296 Pages, 20 Halftones
Publication Date: 10/11/2021
Series: Class 200: New Studies in Religion
Category: Religion & Beliefs
Description: Jainism originated in India and shares some features with Buddhism and Hinduism but it is a distinct tradition with its own key texts art rituals beliefs and history. One important way it has often been distinguished from Buddhism and Hinduism is through the highly contested category of Tantra: Jainism unlike the others does not contain a tantric path to liberation. But in Making a Mantra historian of religions Ellen Gough refines and challenges our understanding of Tantra by looking at the development over two millennia of a Jain incantation or mantra that evolved from an auspicious invocation in a second - century text into a key component of mendicant initiations and meditations that continue to this day. Typically Jainism is characterized as a celibate ascetic path to liberation in which one destroys karma through austerities while the tantric path to liberation is characterized as embracing the pleasures of the material world requiring the ritual use of mantras to destroy karma. Gough however argues that asceticism and Tantra should not be viewed in opposition to one another. She does so by showing that Jains perform tantric rituals of initiation and meditation on mantras and ma? ? alas. Jainism includes kinds of tantric practices Gough provocatively argues because tantric practices are a logical extension of the ascetic path to liberation.
Title: Making A Mantra Tantric Ritual And Renunciation On The Jain Path To Liberation
Author(s): Gough Ellen
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226767062
Pages: 296 Pages, 20 Halftones
Publication Date: 10/11/2021
Series: Class 200: New Studies in Religion
Category: Religion & Beliefs
