Cultural Horizons of India
author: Musashi Tachikawa
edition: 1990, International Academy of Indian Culture and Aditya Prakashan
pages: 2743
Topic: History
Evolution of the tantras
This chapter describes Evolution of the tantras located on page 7 of volume Volume 3 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 3 begins with a new perspective on the evolution of tantras, based on Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan, Indonesian, and Simhalese sources. It further shows that the deification of kings and colossi of the Avatamsaka in Afghanistan, China and Japan are a crucial stage in tantra development.
This book covers the research articles and general surveys of Professor Lokesh Chandra. For example, this chapter describes Evolution of the tantras. 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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Stupas in Orissa (Study) [by Meenakshi Chauley]
Then the Manjusrimulakalpa a Mahayanic Sutra text was remodeled in to tantras. Suvarna Prabhasa sutra which was translated by Dharmasena into Chinese in the first half of the fifth century CE is quite tantric in its contents, formulae and rites (Maharana 1995:150). When Tantrism in the form of Dharanis, Mantras, Mudras and Mandalas etc made their way into Buddhism, other traditional believes which exists in every society, within every human being in the subconscious i. e....
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Diaspora of Bhuta (Daiva) worshipping cult—India and Indonesia [by Shilpa V. Sonawane]
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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Triveni Journal
Das Gupta that this Varna Sadhana which forms such a large portion of the content of the Tantras was not a creation of the Tantra but only a development of the Pratikopasana which was first attempted in the age of the Aranyakas, and that the Tantras merely combined the Vedic teaching with the Yoga method and elaborated the result. The evolution of Buddhism too was on similar lines....
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