At a lonely place, in a remote hermitage somewhere in the Himālaya, the god Śiva is teaching Tantric worship to his humiliated sons, who want to regain their divine status: “You should worship the goddess Mahāmāyā Kālikā”. Remarkable are his ‘talks’ about preliminary rituals, mudrās, and animal as well as human sacrifice. The Tantric Teachings form the inner core of the Kālikā Purāna, i.e. ‘Old Stories about Kālikā’, composed by a learned Brāhmin about a thousand years ago in Kāmarūpa (Assam).
Format: Hardback
CONTRIBUTORS: Karel R. van Kooij
EAN: 9789360803681
COUNTRY: India
PAGES: 316
WEIGHT:
HEIGHT: 250 mm
PUBLISHED BY: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
DATE PUBLISHED: 2025-01-31
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GENRE: RELIGION / Hinduism / Rituals & Practice
WIDTH: 170 mm
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Book Themes:
Hindu life and practice
Karel R. van Kooij, Ph.D. (Utrecht 1972), is Professor Emeritus of Leiden University, the Netherlands. He published on Indology, Hindu and Buddhist Iconography, and restarted the Annual Bibliography of Indian Archaeology (ABIA).