Essay name: Shaiva Tantra: A way of Self-awareness
Author:
L. N. Sharma
Affiliation: Banaras Hindu University / Department of Philosophy and Religion
This essay studies Shaiva Tantra and Tantric philosophies which have evolved from ancient cultural practices and represents a way of Self-awareness. Saiva Tantra emphasizes the individual's journey to transcendence through inner and external sacrifices, integrating various traditions while aiming for an uncreated, harmonious state.
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External source: Shodhganga (Repository of Indian theses)
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systematize a very large amount of material on the topic, for the first time.
It gave me the possibility to reach some new points of view and consequently,
I have suggested a thoroughly different interpretation on a good deal of
items considered "standardised" and generalized solutions. I tried my best
to make the problems clear and to point out all the particular features of
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Saiva tantra vis-a-vis the other tantras. Inasmuch as the present work is
an analysis destined to a circle of scholars, I have not detailed the elements
of Saiva philosophy, thinking that they are already known. I would have been
able to add three more chapters concerning the sadhanas performed on the
first three levels of initiation, but it would have made the work look like a
tantric textbook which was not my intention. Consequently, I prefered to
maintain throughout the thesis rather a metatheoretical approach to the matter.
