Tantric Buddhism and Altered States of Consciousness: Durkheim, Emotional Energy and Visions of the Consort

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Routledge, 2016年4月1日 - 206 頁
This book explores the role of altered states of consciousness in the communication of social and emotional energies, both on a societal level and between individual persons. Drawing from an original reading of Durkheimian social theorists (including Mauss, Hertz, and Hubert) and Jungian psychology, Louise Child applies this analysis to tantric Buddhist ritual and biographical material. She suggests ways in which dreams and visionary experiences (including those related to the 'subtle body') play an important and previously under-explored role in tantric understandings of the consort relationship.
 

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1 Altered States of Consciousness Symbols and Social Theory
1
2 Consciousness Power and Renunciation
27
3 Consorts Myth and Sacrifice in Hindu Tantra
47
4 Sacred Physiology Yoga and Death
67
5 Identity Biography and Shamanic Death
87
6 The Purification of Aggression
105
7 Transmission and Identity
131
8 The Subtle Body and Emotional Energy
157
Bibliography
169
Index
179
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Louise Child is Lecturer in Religious and Theological Studies at Cardiff University, Wales, UK.

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