Language of Images
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Language of Images

Visualization and Meaning in Tantras

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  1. 175 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Language of Images

Visualization and Meaning in Tantras

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About this book

While Indian visual culture and Tantric images have drawn wide attention, the culture of images, particularly that of the divine images, is broadly misunderstood. This book is the first to systematically address the hermeneutic and philosophical aspects of visualizing images in Tantric practices. While examining the issues of embodiment and emotion, this volume initiates a discourse on image-consciousness, imagination, memory, and recall. The main objective of this book is to explore the meaning of the opaque Tantric forms, and with this, the text aims to introduce visual language to discourse. Language of Images is the result of a long and sustained engagement with Tantric practitioners and philosophical and exegetical texts. Due to its synthetic approach of utilizing multiple ways to read cultural artifacts, this work stands alone in its attempt to unravel the esoteric domains of Tantric practice by means of addressing the culture of visualization.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. Preface and Acknowledgements
  5. Copyright Acknowledgements
  6. List of Abbreviations
  7. Chapter 1: Image, Imagination, and Meaning
  8. Chapter 2: Image and Visualization in Classical Hinduism
  9. Chapter 3: Better than Real: Imagining the Body in Tantric Rituals
  10. Chapter 4: Materializing Space and Time in Tantric Images
  11. Chapter 5: Transformative Role of Imagination in Visualizing the Image of Bhairava
  12. Chapter 6: Surplus of Imagination: Images with Multiple Arms
  13. Appendix I: Bhairavānukaraṇastava
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index I: Deity Names and Technical Terms
  16. Index II: Scholars Cited