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142397 PS Hindu Tantra: an overview of rituals and philosophies based on original sources (2022S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 14 - Orientalistik, Afrikanistik, Indologie und Tibetologie
Continuous assessment of course work
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 36 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes

Start: 7 March, 13.00 pm
Institut für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde
Spitalgasse 2, Hof 2,
Eingänge 2.1 und 2.7

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The purpose of the course is to introduce the students to the history and the main features of Tantra, the religious phenomenon that developed within South Asian religions, starting from the middle of the first millennium CE.

Provisional program

1. Tantra: a definition

2. Śaivism: an overview

3. Tantric Śaivism: a classification of the traditions. The Pāśupata; the Lākulas; the Kāpālikas

4. The Mantramārga and the Kulamārga

5. The Śaiva-siddhānta tradition

6. Tantric Viṣṇuism: the Pañcarātra tradition

7. The Tantric body

8. Tantric Rituals 1

9. Tantric Rituals 2

10. Language and Tantra

11. Reading from the Tantrāloka of Abhinavagupta

12. Tantric philosophy: the Pratyabhijñā tradition

13. Reading from the Īsvarapratybhijñākārikā of Utpaladeva

Assessment and permitted materials

Oral exam at the end of the course

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

None

Examination topics

Reading list

A. Padoux. The Hindu Tantric world : an overview, Chicago University Press, 2017.

Association in the course directory

BA14

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