Goddess Traditions in India

This book on Tripurarahasya is a study of Srividya & Sakta traditions in South Indian intellectual history, late middle ages, for researchers in Indology, Asiam, Philosophical, Theological/Religious, Hindu & Tantric Studies, South Asian Religion & Phil., & Sakta & Saiva phil-religious traditions.

This book on the Tripurarahasya, a South Indian Sanskrit work which occupies a unique place in the Sakta literature, is a study of the Srividya and Sakta traditions in the context of South Indian intellectual history in the late middle ages.

Associated with the religious tradition known as Srividya and devoted to the cult of the Goddess Tripura, the text was probably composed between the 13th and the 16th century CE. The analysis of its narrative parts addresses questions about the relationships between Tantric and Puranic goddesses. The discussion of its philosophical and theological teachings tackles problems related to the relationships between Sakta and Saiva traditions. The stylistic devices adopted by the author(s) of the work deal uniquely with doctrinal and ritual elements of the Srividya through the medium of a literary and poetic language. This stylistic peculiarity distinguishes the Tripurarahasya from many other Tantric texts, characterized by a more technical language.

The book is intended for researchers in the field of Asian Studies, Indology, Philosophical, Theological or Religious Studies, Hindu Studies, Tantric Studies and South Asian Religion and Philosophy, in particular those interested in Sakta and Saiva philosophic-religious traditions.

Autorentext

Silvia Schwarz Linder holds a PhD in South Asian Studies from the Institute of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, Vienna University, Austria. She is currently a Research Associate at the Institute for Indology and Central Asian Studies, Leipzig University, Germany and Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, UK. Her interests focus on the Tantric religious traditions of the rvidy and the Pñcartra.

Klappentext

This book on Tripur rahasya is a study of r vidy & kta traditions in South Indian intellectual history, late middle ages, for researchers in Indology, Asiam, Philosophical, Theological/Religious, Hindu & Tantric Studies, South Asian Religion & Phil., & kta & aiva phil-religious traditions.

Zusammenfassung
This book on Tripurarahasya is a study of Srividya & Sakta traditions in South Indian intellectual history, late middle ages, for researchers in Indology, Asiam, Philosophical, Theological/Religious, Hindu & Tantric Studies, South Asian Religion & Phil., & Sakta & Saiva phil-religious traditions.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I MYTHS AND RITUALS Chapter 1 The Tripurrahasya and the rvidy Tradition Chapter 2 The Iconic Form of the Goddess Chapter 3 Tripur as Kmk and Lalit Chapter 4 The Island of Jewels and the rcakra PART II PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL TEACHINGS Chapter 1 Tripur as Immanent and Transcendent Divine Consciousness Chapter 2 The Reformulation of the Svtantryavda and bhsavda *Chapter 3 *The Goddess as Word-Energy Chapter 4 The Path towards Jvanmukti PART III SYNOPSIS OF THE MHTMYAKHAA OF THE TRIPURRAHASYA With an Annotated Translation of the Stotras and of Selected Passages **Descent of the Scripture (strvatra); Presentation of the Spiritual Teachers; Story of Paraurma; The Sage Savarta; Datttreya and His Teaching; Tripur as Mother of the Worlds; The Goddesses as Forms of Tripur; The Threefold Kumr; Lakm and the Deeds of her Son Kma; Kma and Tripur; Gaur; Marriage of Prvat and iva;Origin of the Cult of the ivaliga; Kma and Tripur/Kmk; Birth of Skanda; Bhrat; Ktytan; Caik; Kl; Durg; Lalitmhtmya; Rebirth of Kma; Birth and First Deeds of Bhaa; Maidvpa and rcakra; Antecedents of the Fight between Bhaa and Lalita;The Battle; Lalit Triumphant;* Conclusion; Bibliography; Index of the Translated Passages and Stotra*s