دانلود کتاب Making a Mantra: Tantric Ritual and Renunciation on the Jain Path to Liberation
by Ellen Gough
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عنوان فارسی: ساختن مانترا: آیین تانتریک و انصراف در مسیر جین به سوی رهایی |
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Typically, Jainism is characterized as a celibate, ascetic path to liberation in which one destroys karma through austerities, while the tantric path to liberation is characterized as embracing the pleasures of the material world, requiring the ritual use of mantras to destroy karma. Gough, however, argues that asceticism and Tantra should not be viewed in opposition to one another. She does so by showing that Jains perform “tantric” rituals of initiation and meditation on mantras and maṇḍalas. Jainism includes kinds of tantric practices, Gough provocatively argues, because tantric practices are a logical extension of the ascetic path to liberation.