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Making a Mantra
Tantric Ritual and Renunciation on the Jain Path to Liberation
Taschenbuch von Ellen Gough
Sprache: Englisch

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"Jainism originated in India and shares some features with Buddhism and Hinduism, but it is a distinct tradition with its own key texts, ontology and epistemology, art, rituals, beliefs, and history. One way it has been distinguished from Buddhism and Hinduism is through the contested category of Tantra: Jainism, unlike the others, is said to be a non-tantric tradition. But in Making a Mantra, Ellen Gough refines our understanding of Tantra by looking at the development over 2,000 years of something that has never been considered to be "tantric": a Jain incantation (mantra) that evolved from an auspicious invocation in a second-century text to a key component of mendicant initiations and meditations that continue to this day. Studies of South Asian religions characterize Jainism 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 put in opposition to one another, and she does so by showing that Jains perform "tantric" rituals of initiation and meditation on mantras and mandalas. Jainism includes kinds of tantric practices, Gough provocatively argues, because tantric practices are a logical extension of the ascetic path to liberation"--
"Jainism originated in India and shares some features with Buddhism and Hinduism, but it is a distinct tradition with its own key texts, ontology and epistemology, art, rituals, beliefs, and history. One way it has been distinguished from Buddhism and Hinduism is through the contested category of Tantra: Jainism, unlike the others, is said to be a non-tantric tradition. But in Making a Mantra, Ellen Gough refines our understanding of Tantra by looking at the development over 2,000 years of something that has never been considered to be "tantric": a Jain incantation (mantra) that evolved from an auspicious invocation in a second-century text to a key component of mendicant initiations and meditations that continue to this day. Studies of South Asian religions characterize Jainism 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 put in opposition to one another, and she does so by showing that Jains perform "tantric" rituals of initiation and meditation on mantras and mandalas. Jainism includes kinds of tantric practices, Gough provocatively argues, because tantric practices are a logical extension of the ascetic path to liberation"--
Über den Autor
Ellen Gough is assistant professor of religion at Emory University.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Religion & Theologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 296
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780226767062
ISBN-10: 022676706X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Gough, Ellen
Hersteller: The University of Chicago Press
Maße: 166 x 229 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Ellen Gough
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.10.2021
Gewicht: 0,492 kg
preigu-id: 119477243
Über den Autor
Ellen Gough is assistant professor of religion at Emory University.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Religion & Theologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 296
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780226767062
ISBN-10: 022676706X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Gough, Ellen
Hersteller: The University of Chicago Press
Maße: 166 x 229 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Ellen Gough
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.10.2021
Gewicht: 0,492 kg
preigu-id: 119477243
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