The Brahmayamalatantra or Picumata : Volume I: Chapters 1 2, 39 40 & 83. Revelation, Ritual, and Material Culture in an Early Saiva Tantra [Collection Indologie, 133]
Language: French
Published by Pondicherry, India : Institut Français de Pondichéry ; Paris, France : École Française d'Extrême-Orient, 2018
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708 pages : 25 cm. English and Sanskrit (Sanskrit in Latin). Le Brahmayamala, connu également sous le nom de Picumata, est l un des plus anciens tantra d obédience sakta (centré sur le culte des divinités féminines), ses strates les plus anciennes pouvant dater du VII e ou VIII e siècle de notre ère. Quoiqu il ait été longtemps plongé dans l oubli, il s agit d un document essentiel à la compréhension de l histoire ancienne des traditions tantriques. Cette oeuvre monumentale, qui s étend sur plus de douze mille stances réparties en 104 chapitres, nous est parvenue dans un précieux manuscrit népalais datant du XI e siècle, lequel constitue la source principale de la présente édition critique. Faisant suite au volume 2 du Brahmayamala édité par Csaba Kiss et publié dans la même collection, ce volume inclut la première édition et la traduction annotée de cinq chapitres de l ouvrage. Le texte lui-même est précédé d études spécialisées de thèmes traités dans ces chapitres, tels que les conceptions de la révélation et du canon propres au tantrisme &sivaïte, l histoire des rites de copulation, la mythologie de Bhairava, ainsi que l iconographie et le symbolisme du bâton coiffé d un crâne (khatvanga). À l instar d autres textes publiés dans la collection Early Tantra, cette étude du Brahmayamala contribue à renouveler notre connaissance du sivaïsme tantrique et plus généralement de la religion dans l Inde du début de la période médiévale.…
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- Title
- The Brahmayamalatantra or Picumata : Volume I: Chapters 1 2, 39 40 & 83. Revelation, Ritual, and Material Culture in an Early Saiva Tantra [Collection Indologie, 133]
- Author
- a critical edition and annotated translation by Csaba Kiss
- Publisher
- Pondicherry, India : Institut Français de Pondichéry ; Paris, France : École Française d'Extrême-Orient
- Publication year
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- Dust jacket
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- French
- ISBN 10
- 2855392314
- ISBN 13
- 9782855392318
- Seller catalogs
- India, Philosophy, Sanskrit
Le Brahmayamala, connu également sous le nom de Picumata, est l’un des plus anciens tantra d’obédience sakta (centré sur le culte des divinités féminines), ses strates les plus anciennes pouvant dater du VII e ou VIII e siècle de notre ère. Quoiqu’il ait été longtemps plongé dans l’oubli, il s’agit d’un document essentiel à la compréhension de l’histoire ancienne des traditions tantriques. Cette oeuvre monumentale, qui s’étend sur plus de douze mille stances réparties en 104 chapitres, nous est parvenue dans un précieux manuscrit népalais datant du XI e siècle, lequel constitue la source principale de la présente édition critique. Faisant suite au volume 2 du Brahmayamala édité par Csaba Kiss et publié dans la même collection, ce volume inclut la première édition et la traduction annotée de cinq chapitres de l’ouvrage. Le texte lui-même est précédé d’études spécialisées de thèmes traités dans ces chapitres, tels que les conceptions de la révélation et du canon propres au tantrisme sivaïte, l’histoire des rites de copulation, la mythologie de Bhairava, ainsi que l’iconographie et le symbolisme du bâton coiffé d’un crâne (khatvanga). À l’instar d’autres textes publiés dans la collection Early Tantra, cette étude du Brahmayamala contribue à renouveler notre connaissance du sivaïsme tantrique et plus généralement de la religion dans l’Inde du début de la période médiévale.
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