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Living Mantra

- Mantra, Deity, and Visionary Experience Today
Af: Mani Rao Engelsk Hardback

Living Mantra

- Mantra, Deity, and Visionary Experience Today
Af: Mani Rao Engelsk Hardback
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Living Mantra is an anthropology of mantra-experience among Hindu-tantric practitioners. In ancient Indian doctrine and legends, mantras perceived by rishis (seers) invoke deities and have transformative powers. Adopting a methodology that combines scholarship and practice, Mani Rao discovers a continuing tradition of visionaries (rishis/seers) and revelations in south India''s Andhra-Telangana. Both deeply researched and replete with fascinating narratives, the book  reformulates the poetics of mantra-practice as it probes practical questions. Can one know if a vision is real or imagined? Is vision visual? Are deity-visions mediated by culture? If mantras are effective, what is the role of devotion? Are mantras language? Living Mantra interrogates not only theoretical questions, but also those a practitioner would ask: how does one choose a deity, for example, or what might bind one to a guru? Rao breaks fresh ground in redirecting attention to the moments that precede systematization and canon-formation, showing how authoritative sources are formed.    

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Living Mantra is an anthropology of mantra-experience among Hindu-tantric practitioners. In ancient Indian doctrine and legends, mantras perceived by rishis (seers) invoke deities and have transformative powers. Adopting a methodology that combines scholarship and practice, Mani Rao discovers a continuing tradition of visionaries (rishis/seers) and revelations in south India''s Andhra-Telangana. Both deeply researched and replete with fascinating narratives, the book  reformulates the poetics of mantra-practice as it probes practical questions. Can one know if a vision is real or imagined? Is vision visual? Are deity-visions mediated by culture? If mantras are effective, what is the role of devotion? Are mantras language? Living Mantra interrogates not only theoretical questions, but also those a practitioner would ask: how does one choose a deity, for example, or what might bind one to a guru? Rao breaks fresh ground in redirecting attention to the moments that precede systematization and canon-formation, showing how authoritative sources are formed.    

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 215
ISBN-13: 9783319963907
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 3319963902
Udg. Dato: 1 okt 2018
Længde: 20mm
Bredde: 154mm
Højde: 217mm
Forlag: Springer International Publishing AG
Oplagsdato: 1 okt 2018
Forfatter(e): Mani Rao
Forfatter(e) Mani Rao


Kategori Religiøse problemstillinger og debatter


ISBN-13 9783319963907


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 215


Udgave


Længde 20mm


Bredde 154mm


Højde 217mm


Udg. Dato 1 okt 2018


Oplagsdato 1 okt 2018


Forlag Springer International Publishing AG

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