Encyclopedia of Religion

nonbrahmans, have migrated abroad in search of economic opportunities, they have taken with them to Malaysia, Sri Lanka, East Af ...

TAMMUZ SEE DUMUZI TANGAROA is the most important of the “departmen- tal” gods of Polynesia. In his many cognates, he was wor- sh ...

loving Polynesians continue to sing their old chants even though they no longer fully understand the role that the texts had pla ...

him to a supposed encounter with Tao Hongjing (456–536), the eminent Six Dynasties alchemist and master of the Mao- shan Daoist ...

luan’s Lunzhu,” in Buddhist Hermeneutics, edited by Donald S. Lopez, Jr. (Honolulu, forthcoming). ROGER J. CORLESS (1987) T’AN-L ...

New Sources Berger, Michael S. Rabbinic Authority. New York, 1998. Kalmin, Richard Lee. The Sage in Jewish Society in Late Antiq ...

acters form the basis of the hieratic siddham script employed in Chinese and Japanese tantric man:d:alas and texts. The yogic pr ...

certain tantric traditions, the male guru’s female consort— variously called the Yogin ̄ı, D:a ̄kin ̄ı, “Action Seal,” or “Lotus ...

Harper, Katherine Anne, and Robert Brown, eds. The Roots of Tantra. Albany, N.Y., 2002. Kværne, Per. “On the Concept of Sahaja i ...

tice, and they apparently cross-fertilized each other over the course of centuries. Within Hinduism per se, there are also Tantr ...

est in Tantrism, it is nevertheless the unwanted “stepchild” of Indology—a persistence source of shame and embarrass- ment, and ...

movement, although today most members of this sect do not consider themselves as Tantric practitioners. The Vais:n:ava-Sahajiya ...

made in Tantric texts to Vedic legitimacy, which may have in some cases been introduced at a later date in order to facil- itate ...

groups. Desire—especially in its most powerful form, sexual desire—is not simply indulged in Tantric practice but rather is harn ...

agery; each is said to contain lotuses of different colors and shapes, different Sanskrit letters or mantras, geometrical de- si ...

ings, he claimed, were particularly suitable for modern West- erners, an “iconoclastic brand of spirituality” or a “religion- le ...

crown prince convinced him of the prudence of this action, but he nevertheless maintained the sacerdotal paraphernalia in secret ...

TAO-CH’O SEE DAOCHUO TAO HONGJING (456–536 CE), a polymath scholar of Daoism, was largely responsible for establishing the textu ...

Zhou committed ritual suicide in response to a divine sum- mons received in the course of his visions. Tao submitted a textual r ...

order, and truth, a cosmic association that served as a tem- plate for late Vedic soteriologies as well as post-Vedic popu- lar ...