Tantric Buddhism and Altered States of Consciousness
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Author_Louise Child
Buddhist Tantra
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Consort Relationship
Dalai Lama
Dalai Lamas
Dhyani Buddhas
emotional transmission
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Gelukpa School
Guru Rinpoche
Heart Cakra
Hevajra Tantra
Higher Yoga Tantras
Impure Sacred
Jungian analysis
King Trisong Detsen
Machig Labdron
Mad Saints
Psychic Heat
religious experience
ritual studies
Sixth Dalai Lama
social theory
Songtsen Gampo
Subtle Body
subtle body practices
Tantric Buddhism
Tibetan Tantra
Trikaya Theory
Trisong Detsen
visionary states in tantra
Wrathful Deities
Yeshe Tsogyel
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138270404
- Weight: 380g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 09 Sep 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book explores the role of altered states of consciousness in the communication of social and emotional energies, both on a societal level and between individual persons. Drawing from an original reading of Durkheimian social theorists (including Mauss, Hertz, and Hubert) and Jungian psychology, Louise Child applies this analysis to tantric Buddhist ritual and biographical material. She suggests ways in which dreams and visionary experiences (including those related to the 'subtle body') play an important and previously under-explored role in tantric understandings of the consort relationship.
Louise Child is Lecturer in Religious and Theological Studies at Cardiff University, Wales, UK.
