Liberating the Liberated

Early Åaiva Tantric Death Rites

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Mirnig, NinaHrsg.

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Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaftenerschienen am19.03.2019

This volume examines the formation and development of Åaiva tantric funerary practices (antyeá¹£á¹i) and rituals of post-mortem ancestor worship (srÄddha) as preserved in the earliest extant strata of textual sources. These tantric scriptures and ritual manuals of the Åaiva SiddhÄnta cover a period from about the 5th to the 12th century CE. A close analysis of individual texts shows how the incorporation of death rites into the tantric repertoire was directly linked to the tradition´s development from once focused on private worship and limited to ascetics living outside society to a dominant religion throughout the Indic world. A focal point of the study is how, in this process, Åaiva ritual specialists catered to initiates who were established in the brahmanical householder society, with their death rites essentially coming to serve as the model for Åaiva equivalents. To make these rites more meaningful in terms of Åaiva doctrine, cremation and post-mortem ancestor worship were redefined as a means for liberating the deceased person´s soul, this through its funerary initiation and subsequent worship in manifestations of increasingly potent forms of Åiva.The book first introduces the socio-historical context of early Åaivism, and then in five chapters traces the development of Åaiva funerary rites in the available text sources, examining also the extent to which Åaiva propagators were willing to tolerate doctrinal compromises to be able to include a wider clientele. The appendices contain editions and annotated translations of the passages on cremation and post-mortem ancestor worship from the pre-9th century tantric scriptures SvÄyambhuvasÅ«trasaá¹graha 22.9-20, SarvajñÄnottara 12 and 13, and Kiraá¹a 60 and 61, as well as the chapters on cremation and post-mortem ancestor worship in the 12th-century South-Indian ritual manual JñÄnaratnÄvalÄ«.mehr

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KlappentextThis volume examines the formation and development of Åaiva tantric funerary practices (antyeá¹£á¹i) and rituals of post-mortem ancestor worship (srÄddha) as preserved in the earliest extant strata of textual sources. These tantric scriptures and ritual manuals of the Åaiva SiddhÄnta cover a period from about the 5th to the 12th century CE. A close analysis of individual texts shows how the incorporation of death rites into the tantric repertoire was directly linked to the tradition´s development from once focused on private worship and limited to ascetics living outside society to a dominant religion throughout the Indic world. A focal point of the study is how, in this process, Åaiva ritual specialists catered to initiates who were established in the brahmanical householder society, with their death rites essentially coming to serve as the model for Åaiva equivalents. To make these rites more meaningful in terms of Åaiva doctrine, cremation and post-mortem ancestor worship were redefined as a means for liberating the deceased person´s soul, this through its funerary initiation and subsequent worship in manifestations of increasingly potent forms of Åiva.The book first introduces the socio-historical context of early Åaivism, and then in five chapters traces the development of Åaiva funerary rites in the available text sources, examining also the extent to which Åaiva propagators were willing to tolerate doctrinal compromises to be able to include a wider clientele. The appendices contain editions and annotated translations of the passages on cremation and post-mortem ancestor worship from the pre-9th century tantric scriptures SvÄyambhuvasÅ«trasaá¹graha 22.9-20, SarvajñÄnottara 12 and 13, and Kiraá¹a 60 and 61, as well as the chapters on cremation and post-mortem ancestor worship in the 12th-century South-Indian ritual manual JñÄnaratnÄvalÄ«.

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ISBN/GTIN978-3-7001-8331-0

ProduktartBuch

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Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

ErscheinungsortWien

ErscheinungslandÖsterreich

Erscheinungsjahr2019

Erscheinungsdatum19.03.2019

ReiheBeiträge zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens

Reihen-Nr.96