Kiss's is, to be sure, a partial critical edition and translation, and so it is appropriate that he should read the BraYa in the context of other works from the Saiva canon, the Bhairava
Tantras in particular.
About 35 years ago, the Dalai Lama accepted an invitation to bestow the Kalachakra
Tantra (the Wheel of Life) at the Deer Park Buddhist Center near Madison, Wisconsin, and I asked to help film the process.
Wedemeyer proposes a novel approach to understanding--or as he puts it, "making sense of"--these practices and other controversial aspects of Indo-Tibetan
Tantra and its history.
TANTRA SONG: TANTRIC PAINTING FROM RAJASTHAN BY FRANCK ANDRE JAMME (SIGLIO, 2011)
Nevada (US), Dec 25 (ANI): Hindus are unhappy at actress-producer Trudie Styler's recent reported announcement that "Sadomasochism is the new
Tantra" and other "Hollywood types" who apparently think and describe of
Tantra as just sex.
Bu-ston again seriously discusses the teaching of the possibility of enlightenment in one single life time just through the practice of the three lower
tantras. As any one who does studies of tantric teaching will be aware, this topic of enlightenment in one life time has always been a controversial issue.
Tulku Thondup in his book Hidden Teachings of Tibet writes, "In both the Mahayana Sutras and
tantras, there is the tradition of concealment and rediscovery of teachings through the Enlightened power of realized beings.
In understanding Sarkar's location in the Indian episteme, it is important to note that he places himself within the stream of thought and praxis he identifies as
Tantra. While in its common usage
Tantra refers to the practices of sadhana (esoteric ritual and yogic meditation) explicated in a body of scriptures classified as
Tantra sastras, Sarkar's definition of
Tantra and way of identifying
Tantra in the Indian episteme invokes both ideology and interpretive narrative.
although the text does contain the list of the twenty-eight
Tantras considered as scriptural authority by that school, including itself.
His Mountain Doctrine, Ocean of Definitive Meaning: Final Unique Quintessential Instructions is a sustained argument about the buddha-nature replete with citations of sutras,
tantras, and Indian treatises and interspersed with objections and answers.
Judit Torzok describes the emergence of the Alphabet Goddess Matrka in early Saiva
Tantras. Matrka is the deification of the alphabet itself and the source of all mantras and treatises; taught in the Saiva scriptures the Goddess bestows supreme knowledge and is identified with the universe itself and, in a commentary on a text by Ksemaraja, with the alphabet deity Sabdarasi who represents non-duality (abheda).
Tantras noted three unique states of sadhana (spiritual endeavour)-purification, illumination, and unification; Rajan Zed added.
While little attention is devoted in the present work to the this-worldly context of the Kubjik[a.bar] traditions, that context may be found in two chapters of Dyczkowski's A Journey in the World of the
Tantras, also published by Indica Books (2004).
Tradition likewise links the study of the self (atman) or mind (citta) in Patanjala Yoga with the two other principal "sciences" (
tantras or sastras) of the classical period (ca.
