Understanding mantras / Harvey P. Alper, editor. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alper, Harvey P., 1945-

Series:

SUNY series in religious studies

SUNY series in religious studies Understanding mantras

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mantras.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v, 530 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c1989.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Introduction / Harvey P. Alper

Mántra kaviśatá: speech as performative in the Ṛgveda / Ellison Banks Findly

Vedic Mantras / Frits Staal

The Mantra in Vedic and Tantric ritual / Wade T. Wheelock

Mantra in Āyurveda: a study of the use of magico-religious speech in ancient Indian medicine / Kenneth G. Zysk

Are Mantras speech acts? The Mīmāṃsā point of view / John Taber

The meaning and power of Mantras in Bhartṛhari's Vākyapadīya / Harold Coward

Mantras in the Śivapurāṇa / Ludo Rocher

The use of Mantra in yogic meditation: the testimony of the Pāśupata / Gerhard Oberhammer

The Pāñcarātra attitude to Mantra / Sanjukta Gupta

The cosmos as Śiva's language-game: "Mantra" according to Kṣemarāja's Śivasūtravimarśinī / Harvey P. Alper

Conclusion: Mantras

what are they? / André Padoux.

Notes:

Bibliography: p. 444-530.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-7914-9459-4

0-585-07560-3