- Women, Sex, and Speech in Tantra -

by Loriliai Biernacki

1. Women in Tantrism.

2. Kamakhya (Hindu deity)—Cult.

3. Tantric literature—India, Northeastern—History and criticism.

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Price	3.00 USD
Pages	313 p
File Size	2,048 KB
File Type	PDF format
ISBN	978-0-19-532782-3
Copyright©	2007 by Oxford University Press, Inc

Note on Transliteration

Standard diacritical marks have been used for transliterations of

Sanskrit words throughout this book, with the exception of names

of persons from the colonial and postcolonial period, contemporary

place names, and also for words where the sources (in English or

vernacular) ignore diacritics. So, for instance, references to the nineteenth-

century Hindu saint Ramakrishna and his disciple Gauri

Ma are written without diacritical marks, as are references to the

sixteenth-century Koch king Naranarayan.

Table of Contents

Note on Transliteration, xi

Introduction: The Goddess on the Blue Hill of Ka¯ma¯khya¯, 3

1. The ‘‘Ka¯lı¯ Practice,’’ 29

2. Sex Talk and Gender Rites, 61

3. The Other/Woman, 93

4. To Speak Like a Woman, 111

5. How the Blue Goddess of Speech Turns Blue, 131

Conclusion, 143

Appendix 1: Sources, Other Tantras, and Historical Context, 149

Appendix 2: Synopsis of Contents of the Brhannı¯la Tantra, 193

Notes, 223

Bibliography, 277

Index, 293

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