Vernacular Tantra? An Analysis of the Bengali Text The Garland of Bones
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F20%3A10427696" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/20:10427696 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=jmD5trIJrQ" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=jmD5trIJrQ</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/rosa.19321" target="_blank" >10.1558/rosa.19321</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Vernacular Tantra? An Analysis of the Bengali Text The Garland of Bones
Original language description
The paper introduces the Middle Bengali text The Garland of Bones (Hāṛamālā) into Western scholarship, and poses the question of what milieu it was produced and transmitted in. The main subject matter of this work is Tantric yoga, particularly the concept of the body. Content analysis reveals that it draws from different known sources (East Indian Kaula Sanskrit Tantras and vernacular works), but also contains a substantial amount of material that seems to be unique. Although the study of this text is full of uncertainties, and several questions related to it remain unanswered, the paper concludes that The Garland of Bones was probably composed in seventeenth-century Chittagong in a vernacular Tantric milieu, which was separate from the mainstream Sanskrit-oriented Kaula tradition. Later, probably in the eighteenth century, the text was adopted by the householder Naths in the eastern parts of undivided Bengal, and became one of their most important scriptures.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60304 - Religious studies
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA18-01558S" target="_blank" >GA18-01558S: Hinduism in Bengal (Oxford History of Hinduism)</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Religions of South Asia
ISSN
1751-2689
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
14
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1-2
Country of publishing house
NZ - NEW ZEALAND
Number of pages
24
Pages from-to
63-86
UT code for WoS article
000653678000004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85108697251