Michael Slouber

Early Tantric Medicine

Snakebite, Mantras, and Healing in the Garuda Tantras

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Produktbeschreibung

Early Tantric Medicine explores the mantra-based systems for healing snakebite found in the ancient Hindu texts called the Garuda Tantras. It engages with broader questions of medical efficacy, and describes a worldview in which powerful gods and goddesses are available to anyone who learns the secret methods of propitiating them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 714g
• ISBN-13: 9780190461812
• ISBN-10: 0190461810
• Artikelnr.: 47863493

Autorenporträt

Michael Slouber is Assistant Professor of South Asia in the Department of Liberal Studies at Western Washington University.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Preface
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Precursors to Garudam
Chapter 3: Canon and Compendia
Chapter 4: The Vipati Mantra
Chapter 5: Nilakantha, et al.
Chapter 6: Snakebite Goddesses
Chapter 7: Impact
Chapter 8: Conclusions and Prospective
Appendices
A: Prologue to the Translation and Edition
B Translation of the Kriyakalagunottara: The Garudam Chapters
C Edition of Kriyakalagunottara: The Garudam Chapters
Notes
Register of Shortened Internet Links
Title List of Indic Primary Sources
General Bibliography
Index