02487nam 22005774a 450 991081826470332120230617041214.01-135-88817-51-280-07996-70-203-48338-3(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 mantrasHindu mantras.294.5/37Yelle Robert A1670289MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818264703321Explaining mantras4075739UNINA