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Reinscribing the Goddess into the Culturally Relative Minutiae of Tantric Texts and Practices: A Perennialist Response to Tantric Visual Culture

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Jeffrey S. Lidke
Keywords
metonymy
Tantra
cognitive science
cultural relativism
perennialism
hologram
sādhanā
visualization practice
J. Z. Smith
Mircea Eliade
Religions. Mythology. Rationalism
BL1-2790
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/64863
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https://doaj.org/article/f1559981e22a4d61888586edf4b82102
Abstract
A celebration and critical evaluation of Sthaneshwar Timalsina’s brilliant book, Tantric Visual Culture: A Cognitive Approach. In this groundbreaking work, Timalsina utilizes the lens of cognitive studies to shed interpretive light on the Tantric visualization practices that he knows both as a scholar and lifetime practitioner. Timalsina argues that mastery of Tantric practice requires immersion in the culturally relative metonymic and holographic logic framed by the Tantric ritual texts. The conclusion that arises from his analysis is that Tantric “truths” are bound to the linguistic and cultural systems that frame them. In response, I herewith offer a perennialist critique and argument for a more nuanced consideration of the transcendent “truth” or “being” that is the stated aim of Tantric practice.
Date
2017-10-01
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Article
Identifier
oai:doaj.org/article:f1559981e22a4d61888586edf4b82102
2077-1444
10.3390/rel8100217
https://doaj.org/article/f1559981e22a4d61888586edf4b82102
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