Understanding Mantras

Understanding Mantras

Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press

Harvey P. Alper , editor

Series: SUNY series in religious studies.

Introduction / Harvey P. Alper -- Mántra kaviśatá: speech as performative in the Ṛgveda / Ellison Banks Findly -- Vedic Mantras / Frits Staal -- The Mantra in Vedic and Tantric ritual / Wade T. Wheelock -- Mantra in Āyurveda: a study of the use of magico-religious speech in ancient Indian medicine / Kenneth G. Zysk -- Are Mantras speech acts? The Mīmāṃsā point of view / John Taber -- The meaning and power of Mantras in Bhartṛhari's Vākyapadīya / Harold Coward -- Mantras in the Śivapurāṇa / Ludo Rocher -- The use of Mantra in yogic meditation: the testimony of the Pāśupata / Gerhard Oberhammer -- The Pāñcarātra attitude to Mantra / Sanjukta Gupta -- The cosmos as Śiva's language-game: "Mantra" according to Kṣemarāja's Śivasūtravimarśinī / Harvey P. Alper -- Conclusion: Mantras--what are they? / André Padoux.

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