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Liberating the liberated : early Śaiva tantric death rites /
This volume examines the formation and development of Saiva tantric funerary practices (antye??i) and rituals of post-mortem ancestor worship (?r?ddha) as preserved in the earliest extant strata of textual sources. These tantric scriptures and ritual manuals of the Saiva Siddhanta cover a period fro...
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| Idioma: | Inglés Sanskrit |
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Vienna :
Austrian Academy of Sciences,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Sitzungsberichte (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse) ;
894. Bd. Beiträge zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens ; Nr. 96. |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Introduction : On Śaiva Tantric Death Rites in the Early Medieval Religio-historical Context
- Preliminary remarks
- Śaiva communities in the early medieval period
- Śaiva mainstream devotion
- Śaiva initiatory traditions : From the cremation ground to the public sphere
- Methodological limitations when reconstructing the social reality of Śaiva initiate communities
- The early Siddhānta literature under consideration
- Doctrinal and Structural Premises for Śaiva Tantric Funerary Practices
- The conundrum of Śaiva death rites : liberating the already liberated
- Śaiva funerary rites : A tantric Upgrade of the brahmanical model
- Brahmanical death rites : A brief overview
- The Śaiva Upgrade : (Re- )initiating the dead
- Theoretical problems in terms of Śaiva doctrines
- Conclusion : Ascetic values in the householder context
- The Emergence and Formation of Śaiva antyeṣṭi in the Earliest Extant Śaiva Siddhānta Scriptures
- Preliminary remarks : Three stages in the development of Śaiva funerary rites
- The Guhyasūtra : A brief reference to antyeṣṭi in the last book of the Niśvāsatattvasaṃhitā
- The Svāmbhuvasūtrasaṃgraha : Simple cremation
- The monastic context
- The lokamārgastha : Adherence to the brahmanical order
- Yogic suicide (utkrānti)
- The Sārdhatriśatikālottara : An intermediary stage towards initiatory cremation
- Full initiatory cremation : the Sarvajñānottara, Kiraṇatantra and Dīkṣottara
- The Sārvajñānottara : Initiatory cremation
- The mṛtadīkṣā : Cremation of an effigy
- Some remarks on the position of the Sarvajñānottara in the development of Śaiva tantric funerary rites
- The Kiraṇatantra : A high degree of integration into the brahmanical mainstream
- The Dīkṣottara : Cremation defined as prāyaścitta for Śaiva initiates
- Nyāsadīkṣā : A ritual to remove the subtle body (puryaṣṭaka)
- Burial in the Saiddhāntika scripture Matangapārameśvara : Connections with the Atimārga
- Conclusion : Gradual increase of doctrinal justification
- Śaiva Cremation in Early Saiddhāntika Ritual Manuals
- Introduction
- Brahmaśambhu's Naimittikakriyānusandhāna
- Cremation rituals according to Brahmaśambhu
- Posthumous initiation of a deceased samayin
- Funerary practices for those who die in the maṭha
- The Somaśambhupaddhati
- Initiatory cremation as a privilege of full initiates
- The scope of Somaśambhu's antyeṣṭi
- The Naṭarājapaddhati
- The Jñānaratnāvalī
- Types of cremation and their beneficiaries
- Initiatory cremation
- Cremation of an effigy: mṛtadīkṣā
- Simple cremation
- Cremation in the case of inauspicious death
- A wide range of rituals
- The Kriyākramadyotikā
- The three-level cremation model
- Doctrinal justification
- Range of clientele and ritual agents
- Particulars of procedure before and after those specific to the initiatory level
- Special cremation rites
- The Cremation Ritual
- Preliminary remarks
- The officiant and other people involved in death rituals
- Other people involved in the ritual
- Ritual procedures : An outline
- Preparation of the corpse before the funeral procession
- The funeral procession
- The building of the cremation site
- Ritual preparations
- The Śiva fire (agnikārya), the vāstumaṇḍala and the funeral pyre (citā/citi)
- The preparation of the corpse at the site
- The funerary initiation of the dead
- Lighting the funeral pyre
- Departure from the cremation grounds and the purificatory rites at the waterside
- The gathering and disposing of the bones
- Death pollution
- Death pollution in the brahmanical context : A brief overview
- Death pollution : The Śaiva context
- Shunning the impure : The Somaśambhupaddhati
- Disposal of property
- Ancestor Worship in Early Śaiva Siddhānta
- Introduction
- Śrāddha in its original brahmanical context
- Overview of brahmanical śrāddha rituals according to the YājS
- Pārvaṇaśrāddha
- Ekoddiṣṭaśrāddha and sapiṇḍīkaraṇa
- Śrāddha for female ancestors
- Rationalizing śrāddha in Śaiva tantric terms
- Śaiva śrāddha : On the ritual procedure
- The period between death and the sapiṇḍīkaraṇa
- Śrāddha rites in the Jñānaratnāvalī : an account from the BK
- Śrāddha in the Kriyākramadyotikā
- Beyond the initiate Community : The Kiraṇa's rudraśrāddha and laukikaśrāddha
- The Kiraṇa's model in the Somaśambhupaddhati and the Kriyākramadyotikā
- How to choose the appropriate śrāddha level? Some practical considerations
- Conclusion
- Sanskrit Texts
- Conventions
- List of signs
- Svāyambhuvasūtrasaṃgraha 22.9-20
- Sarvajñānottara 12
- Sarvajñānottara 13
- Kiraṇa 60
- Kiraṇa 61
- Jñānaratnāvalī Antyeṣṭiprakaraṇa
- Jñānaratnāvalī Śrāddhaprakaraṇa
- Translations
- Conventions
- Svāyambhuvasūtrasaṃgraha 22.9-20
- Sarvajñānottara 12
- Sarvajñānottara 13
- Kiraṇa 60
- Kiraṇa 61
- Jñānaratnāvalī Antyeṣṭiprakaraṇa
- Jñānaratnāvalī Śrāddhaprakaraṇa
- Bibliography
- Abbreviations
- Primary Sources
- Secondary Sources
- Index.