Vernacular Tantra? An Analysis of the Bengali Text The Garland of Bones

Kód výsledku v 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>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Vernacular Tantra? An Analysis of the Bengali Text The Garland of Bones

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Vernacular Tantra? An Analysis of the Bengali Text The Garland of Bones

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

60304 - Religious studies

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA18-01558S" target="_blank" >GA18-01558S: Hinduismus v Bengálsku (Oxfordské dějiny hinduismu)</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Religions of South Asia

ISSN

1751-2689

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

14

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1-2

Stát vydavatele periodika

NZ - Nový Zéland

Počet stran výsledku

24

Strana od-do

63-86

Kód UT WoS článku

000653678000004

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85108697251