CORPUS TANTRIKA Standard Edition

CORPUS TANTRIKA
Hindu & Tibetan Mysteries of Sacred Sexuality
by Raven Stronghold
 
 
Corpus Tantrika is the body of Tantric traditions which have been studied mostly from textual and historical perspectives. An Anthropological voyage through living temples, to the rising of the age of shiva. The book reveals the creation and history of the world; the names and functions of a great variety of male and female deities and other higher beings; the types of ritual worship, especially of Goddesses; magic, sorcery, and divination; esoteric "physiology" as the mapping of the subtle or psychic body; the awakening of the mysterious serpent power (kundalini-shakti); techniques of bodily and mental purification; the nature of enlightenment; and sacred sexuality.
 
Transgressive Tantrika elements includes the use of skulls and other human bone implements as part of the rituals, fierce deities like Bhairava, Kubjika and Kali, Shiva which were used as part of meditative visualizations, ritual possession by the deities (avesa), sexual rites and offering the deity as well as consuming certain impure substances like meat, alcohol and sexual fluids.
 
With more than 250 pages.
 
 
Table of Contents
 
INTRODUCTION
THE TANTRIC PATH
VEDIC CORPUS TANTRIKA
TANTRIC FIRE AND ECSTASY IN VEDIC TRADITION
THE SEXUAL CULT OF SHIVA
TANTRIC ELEMENTS IN BUDDHISM
THE TANTRIC PATH IN SHAIVISM AND SHAKTISM
HINDU TANTRA
ŚAIVA AND ŚAKTA TANTRA
VAISNAVA
THE TIBETAN TANTRIC DIASPORA
WORSHIP AND RITUAL IN HINDU TANTRA
YOGA, MANTRA AND MEDITATION
MANDALAS AND YANTRAS
THE SERPENT OF FIRE AND TANTRIC SEX
KALACHAKRA TANTRA
TRASCENDNETAL TANTRA AND THE INMOST LIGHT
YOGA WITH MUDRAS
YOGA WITHOUT SIGNS
UTPATTI – KRAMA
DEITY MANDALA & SACRED OFFERINGS
THE MEDITATION PRACTICE
THE KALACHAKRA MANDALA
DEITIES OF THE GUHYASAMAJA CYCLE
NYINGMA’S COMPLETION
THE GREAT SEAL & THE GREAT PERFECTION
THANGKA
KARMAMUDRA
VAJRAYANA BUDDHISM
MAHASIDDHAS AND THE TANTRIC PATH
VAJRAYANA IN RELATIONSHIP TO SHAIVISM
TRADITIONAL LEGENDS
VAJRAYANA RITUALS
DEVATA YOGA
VAJRA
CHINESE ESOTERIC BUDDHISM
KURUKULLA
TANTRIC RITUALS AND MAGICKAL PRACTICES
TANTRIC SEX
KALACHAKRA TANTRA
THE SAKTI PITHAS AND DAKSAYANI
THE GREAT LORD  
LINGA WORSHIP
ICONS OF SHIVA, ICONS OF POWER
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