The Worship of Mahāganapati According to the Nityotsava
The Worship of Mahāganapati According to the Nityotsava

Author: Gudrun Bühnemann

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

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The Present Study Contributes To An Understanding Of The Aims Of Tantric Puja, Which Is Intentionally Hidden From The Common Man, And About Which Many Strange Notions Prevail Both In India And The West.

Negotiating Rites
Negotiating Rites

Author: Ute Husken

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 0199812292

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Ritual has been long viewed as an undisputed and indisputable part of (especially religious) tradition, performed over and over in the same ways: stable in form, meaningless, preconcieved, and with the aim of creating harmony and enabling a tradition's survival. The authors represented in this collection argue, however, that this view can be seriously challenged and that ritual's embeddedness in negotiation processes is one of its central features.

Tantric Forms of Gaṇeśa According to the Vidyārṇavatantra
Tantric Forms of Gaṇeśa According to the Vidyārṇavatantra

Author: Gudrun Bühnemann

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 164

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Although the number of publications dealing with Ganesa is not insignificant, few take original Sanskrit texts into consideration. The Tantric aspects of the deity have certainly been studied too little. This book contributes to our knowledge of this less familiar side of Ganesa. It describes his forms according to the Vidyarnavatantra, a large compilation on mantrasastra attributed to Vidyaranya Yati and compiled around the seventeenth century. This text gives the iconographic peculiarities, mantras, and yantras of fourteen forms of Ganesa as well as instructions for the ritual application of the mantras.