A Journey in the World of the Tantras

Author: Mark S G Dyczkowski
Publisher: Indica Books
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 316
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8186569421

Description

The past thirty years have witnessed dramatic developments in the study of Agamic Shaivism in general. On the one hand there has been a substantial increase in the historical and anthropological data. On the other, access has been cleared to vast reserves of unedited and unpublished sources.

This book is a collection of essays which document in their own way the author’s personal journey in these years through parts of the Shaiva and, to some extent, the Vaisnava Tantras. Anyone who has traveled on similar paths knows how vast and marvelous the lands of this extraordinary world are.

This book includes the following chapters: Self-awareness, Own Being and Egoity; Abhavavada, the Doctrine of Non-being, The Samvitparakasha; The Inner Pilgrimage of the Tantras; Kubjika, the Androgynous goddess; The Cult of the Goddess Kubjika.