Karel R van Kooij

Gebundenes Buch

Tantric Teachings of the Kālikā Purāṇa

Beschreibung

This book is about Tantric worship of the Hindu goddess Mahāmāyā Kālikā, with detailed descriptions of preliminary rituals, mudrās, mantras and their applications, iconography, and animal as well as human sacrifice. Written in Kāmarūpa (Assam) around the eleventh century CE.

Autor

Karel R. van Kooij, Ph.D. (Utrecht 1972), is Professor Emeritus of Leiden University, The Netherlands. He published on Indology, Hindu and Buddhist Iconography, and restarted the Annual Bibliography of Indian Archaeology (ABIA), now on line (Brill).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 592g
• ISBN-13: 9789004470293
• ISBN-10: 9004470298
• Artikelnr.: 62350574