Change, Continuity and Complexity: The Mahāvidyās in East Indian Śākta Traditions - Tapa dura

Shin, Jae-Eun

 
9781138326903: Change, Continuity and Complexity: The Mahāvidyās in East Indian Śākta Traditions

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The Mahāvidyās are the representative Tantric feminine pantheon consisting of ten goddesses. It is formed by divergent religious strands & elements: the mātṛ & yoginī worship, the cult of Kālī, the Brahmanical strand of Puranic traditions, etc. This volume explores the historical process through which these traditions culminated in the Mahāvidyā cult and the goddesses with different origins were brought into a cluster, with special reference to socio-political changes in the lower Gaṅgā and Brahmaputra Valley between the 9th and 15th centuries CE.

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Jae-Eun Shin is currently a research collaborator at Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo. She has written extensively on goddess cults and sacred sites in eastern India and on the history of Kāmarūpa, especially its state formation and religious identity construction.

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9781032653518: Change, Continuity and Complexity: The Mahāvidyās in East Indian Śākta Traditions

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ISBN 10:  1032653515 ISBN 13:  9781032653518
Editorial: Routledge, 2023
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