Das Mahavidyas - A Contemporary Discourse

Author: Som Ranchan
Publisher: Abhinav Publications
Year: 2012
Language: English
Pages: 236
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788170175261

Description

Imbued with insights drawn from modern psychology, folk-wisdom and the deepest wellsprings of a thinking heart, Das Mahavidya becomes an evolutionary scale for humans, a methodology for walking the spiritual path. It shows a way to coalesce immanent and transcendent, human and sublime, desire and illumination.

Contents

Foreword
Preface
Prologue

1. Kali
2. Tara
3. Shodashi
4. Bhuvaneshwari
5. Bhairavi
6. Chinnamasta
7. Dhoomavati
8. Baglamukhi
9. Matangi
10. Kamla
11. Active Imagination on Das Mahavidyas
12. Mantra, Tantra, Feminism
13. Preliminary Reflections on Tantra and Feminism
Postscript