Louise Child

Tantric Buddhism and Altered States of Consciousness

Durkheim, Emotional Energy and Visions of the Consort

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the role of altered states of consciousness in the communication of social and emotional energies, both on a societal level and between individual persons. Drawing from an original reading of Durkheimian social theorists (including Mauss, Hertz, and Hubert) and Jungian psychology, Louise Child applies this analysis to tantric Buddhist ritual and biographical material. She suggests ways in which dreams and visionary experiences (including those related to the 'subtle body') play an important and previously under-explored role in tantric understandings of the consort relationship.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 484g
• ISBN-13: 9780754658047
• ISBN-10: 075465804X
• Artikelnr.: 44789997

Autorenporträt

Louise Child is Lecturer in Religious and Theological Studies at Cardiff University, Wales, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Altered states of consciousness, symbols, and social theory
Consciousness, power, and renunciation
Consorts, myth, and sacrifice in Hindu tantra
Sacred physiology, yoga, and death
Identity, biography, and shamanic death
The purification of aggression
Transmission and identity
The subtle body and emotional energy
Bibliography.