Explaining mantras: ritual, rhetoric, and the dream of a natural language in Hindu tantra

Explaining Mantras explores the intersection of poetry and magic in the mantras or verbal formulas of Hindu Tantra and combines the study of ancient Tantric rituals with the latest theories in the human sciences

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Main Author: Yelle, Robert A. (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: New York Routledge 2003
In:Year: 2003
Series/Journal:Religion in history, society and culture 3
Religion in History, Society and Culture Ser v.3
Further subjects:B Hindu mantras
B Tantras ; Criticism, interpretation, etc
B Electronic books
B Tantras Criticism, interpretation, etc
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505 8 0 |a Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Note on Translation; Introduction: The Word and the World; Chapter One Opening the Puzzle Box: Mantras, Poetry, and Magic; Chapter Two Chanting the Cosmogony: Mantras as Diagrams of Creation; Chapter Three The Linguistic Ideology of the Tantras: Language, Canon, and Idolatry; Chapter Four The Science of Illusion, Part One: Poetry and the Dream of a Natural Language; Chapter Five The Science of Illusion, Part Two: The Rhetoric of Ritual 
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