Cultural Horizons of India
author: Musashi Tachikawa
edition: 1990, International Academy of Indian Culture and Aditya Prakashan
pages: 2743
Topic: History
Advaya-sadhana
This chapter describes Advaya-sadhana located on page 328 of volume Volume 4 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 4 is devoted to the art, history and literature; inscriptions, statues and thought; mandalas, epics and legends of Classical Indonesia.
This book covers the research articles and general surveys of Professor Lokesh Chandra. For example, this chapter describes Advaya-sadhana. 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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Triveni Journal
Sadhana then is really applied psychology. Siddhi is success in sadhana and the acid test of any form of sadhana is not whether it appears rational, or is in conformity with preconceived ethical, aesthetic or other standards, but mainly whether it leads to siddhi or not. In essence, sadhana is an experimental method to be judged by the criterion of success, the deciding factors being efficiency and cost as in the case of any scientific process....
Read full contents: The Function of Sadhana
Folk Tradition of Bengal (and Rabindranath Tagore) [by Joydeep Mukherjee]
And therein lies the true meaning of Buddha s preaching (Sadhana, p. 40)....
Read full contents: Chapter 5.6 - Theoretical similarity between Tagore and Lalon Fakir
Stupas in Orissa (Study) [by Meenakshi Chauley]
Sadhana number 241-242,244-245 describes the iconography and rituals of Heruka when single. He is to have one face, two hands with vajra in right and kapala full of blood in left. A khatvanga (staff with a human skull at the top) passes through the crook of his left arm which is decorated with flattering banners (Plate-CXXXVIII). His body besmeared in ash is to be clad in human skin (tiger skin according to sadhana-245). He dances in ardhaparyanka pose over corpse....
Read full contents: Emanations of Aksobhya
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