دانلود کتاب The Tantric Body: The Secret Tradition of Hindu Religion

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Cover\nContents\nPreface\nPart I Theory, Text and History\n 1. Introduction: The Body as Text\n Tantra, Tradition and the Body\n Reading Strategies: Text\n Reading Strategies: Body\n Experience and Asceticism\n The Argument of the Book\n 2. The Vedic Body\n The Political and Social Context\n Legal Discourse\n Political Discourse\n The Highest Good\n 3. The Tantric Revelation\n The Validity of Tantric Revelation\n The Pancaratra Revelation\n The Saiva Revelation\n Text and Tradition\n The Tantric Theology of Revelation\n Revelation and Doctrine\n 4. Tantric Civilisation\n The Divinisation of the Body as Root Metaphor\n Tantric Polity\n The Tantric Temple\n Tantra and Erotic Sculpture\n Possession\nPart II The Body as Text\n 5. The Pancaratra\n Emanationist Cosmology\n The Purification of the Body\n The Bhutasuddhi in the Tantric Revelation\n The Divinisation of the Body\n Inner Worship\n External Worship\n 6. Saiva Siddhanta\n Saiva Siddhanta Doctrine\n The Tattva Hierachy\n The Six Paths\n The Ritual Process: Invitation\n The Ritual Process: Dail Rites\n The Ritual Process: Behaviour\n 7. Ecstatic Tantra\n Absolute Subjectivity and Indexicality\n The Circle of Deities in the Body\n Kundalini and the Cakras\n Two Ritual Systems\n 8. Tantric Imagination\n Vision\n Gesture and Utterance\n Icon\n Indexicality\n Reading\nEpilogue\nAppendix: The Jayakhya-samhita\nAbbreviations and Sources\nNotes\nSuggested Further Reading\nIndex