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Living Mantra = Mantra, Deity, and Visionary Experience Today /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Living Mantra/ by Mani Rao.
Reminder of title:	Mantra, Deity, and Visionary Experience Today /
Author:	Rao, Mani.
Description:	XIX, 215 p. 12 illus., 10 illus. in color.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Ethnography. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96391-4
ISBN:	9783319963914

Living Mantra = Mantra, Deity, and Visionary Experience Today /
Rao, Mani.

Living MantraMantra, Deity, and Visionary Experience Today /[electronic resource] :by Mani Rao. - 1st ed. 2019. - XIX, 215 p. 12 illus., 10 illus. in color.online resource. - Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. - Contemporary Anthropology of Religion.

Part 1: Preparation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A Mountain of Scholarship -- 3. Crossing Over -- 4. Are there Revelations Today? - Part 2: Fieldwork -- 5. Body-Yantra: Sahasrakshi Meru Temple, Devipuram -- 6. Self-Made: Svayam Siddha Kali Pitham, Guntur -- 7. "I am in Mantra, Mantra is in me": Nachiketa Tapovan, Kodgal -- Part 3 -- 8. Understanding Mantra Again.

Living Mantra is an anthropology of mantra-experience among Hindu-tantric practitioners. In ancient Indian doctrine and legends, mantras perceived by rishis (seers) invoke deities and have transformative powers. Adopting a methodology that combines scholarship and practice, Mani Rao discovers a continuing tradition of visionaries (rishis/seers) and revelations in south India’s Andhra-Telangana. Both deeply researched and replete with fascinating narratives, the book reformulates the poetics of mantra-practice as it probes practical questions. Can one know if a vision is real or imagined? Is vision visual? Are deity-visions mediated by culture? If mantras are effective, what is the role of devotion? Are mantras language? Living Mantra interrogates not only theoretical questions, but also those a practitioner would ask: how does one choose a deity, for example, or what might bind one to a guru? Rao breaks fresh ground in redirecting attention to the moments that precede systematization and canon-formation, showing how authoritative sources are formed.

ISBN: 9783319963914

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-96391-4doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1112077
Ethnography.

LC Class. No.: GN301-674

Dewey Class. No.: 305.8

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