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Author Brooks, Douglas Renfrew

Title Auspicious wisdom : the texts and traditions of Śrīvidyā Śākta tantrism in south India / Douglas Renfrew Brooks
Published Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, ©1992

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 301 pages) : illustrations
Series SUNY series in tantric studies
SUNY series in tantric studies.
Contents Part one: Śrīvidyā tradition and texts -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Kula Tantrism and Śrīvidyā tradition -- Chapter 2: Earliest historical evidence for Śrīvidyā in Tamil literature -- Chapter 3: Śrīvidyā in text and history -- Chapter 4: The Goddess Lalitā Mahātripurasundarī: The Sthūla aspect -- Chapter 5: The Śrīvidyā Mantra: śrīvidyā -- Chapter 6: Śrīcakra: the transcendent aspect of Devī -- Part two: Interpreting Tantric tirual
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-281) and index
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Śrīvidyā swd
Subject Śrīvidyā (Hindu deity)
Shaktism -- India, South
Tantrism -- India, South
RELIGION -- Hinduism -- General.
Shaktism
Śrīvidyā (Hindu deity)
Tantrism
Schaktismus
Śaktisme -- Inde (sud)
Tantrisme -- Inde (sud)
South India
Indien -- Süd
Form Electronic book
LC no. 91031730
ISBN 0585067198
9780585067193
9780791497685
0791497682