The Mystical World of the Body in the Bengali Tantric Work Nigūḍhārthaprakāśāvali

Amongst the wide collection of literature on the Bengali Tantric Vaiṣṇava Sahajiyās, the works of Mukundadāsa (or Mukundadeva) and his disciples are counted among the most influential. Those Middle Bengali texts that are usually recognized as a group of the four main texts of Mukunda and his circle...

Full description

Saved in:  
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Czyżykowski, Robert (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
Journals Online & Print:
Drawer...
Fernleihe:Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste
Published: MDPI [2020]
In: Religions
Year: 2020, Volume: 11, Issue: 9, Pages: 472
Further subjects:B Sahajiyā
B Tantra
B Bengal
B Mystical Experience
B Body
B yogic body
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
Volltext (doi)

MARC

LEADER 00000caa a22000002 4500
001 1733824871
003 DE-627
005 20210127101855.0
007 cr uuu---uuuuu
008 200928s2020 xx |||||o 00| ||eng c
024 7 |a 10.3390/rel11090472$y11 (2020,9) Artikel 472  |2 doi 
035 |a (DE-627)1733824871 
035 |a (DE-599)KXP1733824871 
040 |a DE-627  |b ger  |c DE-627  |e rda 
041 |a eng 
084 |a 1  |a 0  |2 ssgn 
100 1 |a Czyżykowski, Robert  |e VerfasserIn  |4 aut 
245 1 4 |a The Mystical World of the Body in the Bengali Tantric Work Nigūḍhārthaprakāśāvali 
264 1 |c [2020] 
336 |a Text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a Computermedien  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a Online-Ressource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
520 |a Amongst the wide collection of literature on the Bengali Tantric Vaiṣṇava Sahajiyās, the works of Mukundadāsa (or Mukundadeva) and his disciples are counted among the most influential. Those Middle Bengali texts that are usually recognized as a group of the four main texts of Mukunda and his circle or followers are commented in the work Nigūḍhārthaprakāśāvali (NPV, ‘The Array of lights on the hidden meanings’) by various disciples of this line. The main goal of this paper is to shed light on some aspects of the religious experience in the regional Tantric tradition. As we may suppose, the descriptions included in NPV refer to some previous experiences of the authors (gurus) of the tradition and describe imaginary internal worlds of the body in the manner specific to that tradition, using various esoteric terms and describing also various kinds of religious discipline (sādhana). This means the presentation of the relatively poorly known and still not well-studied Bengali Tantra is expressed in the vernacular Bengali language (Middle Bengali, madhyajuger Bānglā). I will try to demonstrate how the image of the human body (and its imagination in this particular tradition) serves as the basis for the religious experience. 
601 |a Bengali 
650 4 |a Bengal 
650 4 |a Sahajiyā 
650 4 |a Tantra 
650 4 |a Body 
650 4 |a Mystical Experience 
650 4 |a yogic body 
773 0 8 |i Enthalten in  |t Religions  |d Basel : MDPI, 2010  |g 11(2020,9) Artikel 472  |h Online-Ressource  |w (DE-627)665435797  |w (DE-600)2620962-7  |w (DE-576)348219067  |x 2077-1444  |7 nnns 
773 1 8 |g volume:11  |g year:2020  |g number:9  |g pages:472 
856 4 0 |u https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/11/9/472  |x Verlag 
856 |u https://doi.org/10.3390/rel11090472$y11 (2020,9) Artikel 472  |x doi  |3 Volltext 
951 |a AR 
ELC |a 1 
LOK |0 000 xxxxxcx a22 zn 4500 
LOK |0 001 3763586105 
LOK |0 003 DE-627 
LOK |0 004 1733824871 
LOK |0 005 20200928085548 
LOK |0 008 200928||||||||||||||||ger||||||| 
LOK |0 040   |a DE-Tue135  |c DE-627  |d DE-Tue135 
LOK |0 092   |o n 
LOK |0 852   |a DE-Tue135 
LOK |0 852 1  |9 00 
LOK |0 935   |a ixzs  |a ixzo 
OAS |a 1  |b inherited from superior work 
ORI |a SA-MARC-ixtheoa001.raw 
REL |a 1 
SUB |a REL