Cultural Horizons of India
author: Musashi Tachikawa
edition: 1990, International Academy of Indian Culture and Aditya Prakashan
pages: 2743
Topic: History
Tantras and the defence of Tang China
This chapter describes Tantras and the defence of Tang China located on page 257 of volume Volume 2 in the book Cultural Horizons of India compiled by Musashi Tachikawa. This book comprises 50 years of research material of Lokesh Chandra and represents a thorough study of the ancient culture of India, dealing with Tantra, Buddhism, Art, Archaeology, Language and Literature in 7 volumes.
Volume 2 comprises the studies of Prof. Lokesh Chandra on the iconography, syllabary, tantras, cultural heritage in general, defence, Canon and mandalas of Japan, Korea and China.
This book covers the research articles and general surveys of Professor Lokesh Chandra. For example, this chapter describes Tantras and the defence of Tang China. Everything together represents a huge collection of writings related to languages such as Sanskrit, Iranian, Sino-Japanese, Tibetan, Thai, Greek, Latin, Celtic, and Slavic..
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Uddiyana Pitha (in Tantric Buddhism). [Full title: Tantric Buddhism in Orissa (Introduction) (4): Uddiyana Pitha] In the early tantras like Hevajra tantra and Sadhanamala, four pithas have been identified. But in the later period there is variation on the number of pithas mentioned in different texts (Donaldson 2000:9). However, Uddiyana/Oddiyana/Odra pitha finds mentions in all the texts....
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Association with Tantra. [Full title: Shaktism (India And Indonesia)—Association with Tantra] Tantric is a largely unknown aspect of Shaktism -a vague, often flaming concept, which shows everything, the worship of the Orthodox temple in southern India, black magic and mysterious practices in northern India, for ritualistic intimate practices (sometimes called "New tantra") In the west. In fact, all Shaktizm gods are not tantric in nature, and all Tantric gods are not shakique type....
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According to the new translation schools or new schools of Tantra in Tibet, Tantras are grouped under four classes as follows: Tibetan Bya rgyud sPyod rgyud rNal byor rgyud rNal byor bla med Sanskrit Kriya tantra Carya tantra Yoga tantra Anutara Yoga tantra English Action tantra Performance tantra Yoga tantra Highest Yoga tantra The above Four Tantras can be further categorized into two: three outer Tantras and one inner Tantra....
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