Jae-Eun Shin

Change, Continuity and Complexity (eBook, ePUB)

The Mahavidyas in East Indian Sakta Traditions

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Mahavidyas are the representative Tantric feminine pantheon consisting of ten goddesses. It is formed by divergent religious strands & elements: the mat¿ & yogini worship, the cult of Kali, the Brahmanical strand of Puranic traditions, etc. This volume explores the historical process through which these traditions culminated in the Mahavidya cult and the goddesses with different origins were brought into a cluster, with special reference to socio-political changes in the lower Gäga and Brahmaputra Valley between the 9th and 15th centuries CE.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429831027
• Artikelnr.: 56831910

Autorenporträt

Jae-Eun Shin is currently a research collaborator at Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo. She has written extensively on goddess cults and sacred sites in eastern India and on the history of Kamarupa, especially its state formation and religious identity construction.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Grouping of Multiple Feminine Divinities 3. Making of the Mah
vidy
s in the
kta Upapur
nas and Tantras in Eastern India 4. Locating of the Mah
vidy
s in the Sacred Landscape 5. Conclusion