Change, Continuity and Complexity

ISBN-13: 9781032653518 / Miękka / 2024 / 376 str.

Jae-Eun Shin

Opis

The Mahāvidyās are the representative Tantric feminine pantheon consisting of ten goddesses. It is formed by divergent religious strands & elements: the mātṛ & yoginī worship, the cult of Kālī, the Brahmanical strand of Puranic traditions, etc. This volume explores the historical process through which these traditions culminated in the M

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Grouping of Multiple Feminine Divinities 3. Making of the Mahāvidyās in the Śākta Upapurānas and Tantras in Eastern India 4. Locating of the Mahāvidyās in the Sacred Landscape 5. Conclusion

O autorze

Jae-Eun Shin is currently a research collaborator at Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo. She has written extensively on goddess cults and sacred sites in eastern India and on the history of Kāmarūpa, especially its state formation and religious identity construction.