Making a Mantra Tantric Ritual and Renunciation on the Jain Path to Liberation

Author: Hagendorf, Col
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Jainism originated in India and shares some features with Buddhism and Hinduism, but it is a distinct tradition with its own key texts, art, rituals, beliefs, and history. One important way in which it has often been distinguished from Buddhism and Hinduism is through the highly contested category of Tantra: Jainism, unlike the others, is said to be a non-tantric tradition. But in Making a Mantra, historian of religions Ellen Gough refines and challenges our understanding of Tantra by looking at the development over two millennia of something that has never been considered "tantric" a Jain incantation, or mantra, that evolved from an auspicious invocation in a second-century text into a key component of mendicant initiations and meditations that continue to this day.

Typically, Jainism is characterized as a celibate, ascetic path to liberation in which one destroys karma through austerities, while the tantric path to liberation is characterized as embracing the pleasures of the material world, requiring the ritual use of mantras to destroy karma. Gough, however, argues that asceticism and Tantra should not be viewed in opposition to one another. She does so by showing that Jains perform "tantric" rituals of initiation and meditation on mantras and mandalas. Jainism includes kinds of tantric practices, Gough provocatively argues, because tantric practices are a logical extension of the ascetic path to liberation.

Publisher Name University of Chicago Press
Author Name Hagendorf, Col
Format Audio
Bisac Subject Major REL
Language NG
Isbn 10 022676706X
Isbn 13 9780226767062
Target Age Group min:NA, max:NA
Series 000796672
Dimensions 00.00" H x 00.00" L x 00.00" W
Page Count 296

Ellen Gough is assistant professor of religion at Emory University.

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