Living Mantra Mantra, Deity, and Visionary Experience Today /

• Main Author: Rao, Mani (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
• Subjects: Ethnography.; Ethnology.; Religion and sociology.; Social Anthropology.; Cultural Anthropology.; Religion and Society.; Sociology of Religion.

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 cont...

Table of Contents:

• 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.