Understanding mantras /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Albany, N.Y. :
State University of New York Press,
©1989.
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| Series: | SUNY series in religious studies
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=7441 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.