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Understanding mantras /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Alper, Harvey P., 1945-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, [1989]
Colección:SUNY series in religious studies.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Harvey P. Alper
  • Mántra kaviśatá: speech as performative in the Ṛgveda / Ellison Banks Findly
  • Vedic Mantras / Frits Staal
  • The Mantra in Vedic and Tantric ritual / Wade T. Wheelock
  • Mantra in Āyurveda: a study of the use of magico-religious speech in ancient Indian medicine / Kenneth G. Zysk
  • Are Mantras speech acts? The Mīmāṃsā point of view / John Taber
  • The meaning and power of Mantras in Bhartṛhari's Vākyapadīya / Harold Coward
  • Mantras in the Śivapurāṇa / Ludo Rocher
  • The use of Mantra in yogic meditation: the testimony of the Pāśupata / Gerhard Oberhammer
  • The Pāñcarātra attitude to Mantra / Sanjukta Gupta
  • The cosmos as Śiva's language-game: "Mantra" according to Kṣemarāja's Śivasūtravimarśinī / Harvey P. Alper
  • Conclusion: Mantras--what are they? / André Padoux.