02524nam 22005894a 450 991045148990332120200520144314.01-135-88817-51-280-07996-70-203-48338-3(CKB)1000000000249838(EBL)182929(OCoLC)437056171(SSID)ssj0000295977(PQKBManifestationID)11223149(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000295977(PQKBWorkID)10319612(PQKB)11434596(MiAaPQ)EBC182929(Au-PeEL)EBL182929(CaPaEBR)ebr10165289(CaONFJC)MIL7996(EXLCZ)99100000000024983820030320d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrExplaining mantras[electronic resource] ritual, rhetoric, and the dream of a natural language in Hindu tantra /Robert A. YelleNew York Routledge20031 online resource (190 p.)Religion in history, society and culture ;3Description based upon print version of record.0-203-60514-4 0-415-96635-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-177) and index.Book Cover; Title; Contents; Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Note on Translation; Introduction: The Word and the World; Opening the Puzzle Box: Mantras, Poetry, and Magic; Chanting the Cosmogony: Mantras as Diagrams of Creation; The Linguistic Ideology of the Tantras:Language, Canon, and Idolatry; The Science of Illusion, Part One: Poetry and the Dream of a Natural Language; The Science of Illusion, Part Two: The Rhetoric of Ritual; Toward a Genealogy of Ritual and Rhetoric: Iconophiles and Iconophobes; Notes; Bibliography; IndexExplaining Mantras explores the intersection of poetry and magic in the mantras or verbal formulas of Hindu Tantra and combines the study of ancient Tantric rituals with the latest theories in the human sciences.Religion in history, society & culture ;3.Hindu mantrasElectronic books.Hindu mantras.294.5/37Yelle Robert A878146MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451489903321Explaining mantras2287103UNINA