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For centuries, the Aghori have been known as the most radical ascetics in India: living naked on the cremation grounds, meditating on corpses, engaging in cannibalism and coprophagy, and consuming intoxicants out of human skulls. In recent years, however, they have shifted their practices from the embrace of ritually polluted substances to the healing of stigmatized diseases. In the process, they have become a large, socially mainstream, and politically powerful organization. Based on extensive fieldwork, this lucidly written book explores the dynamics of pollution, death, and healing in Aghor medicine. Ron Barrett examines a range of Aghor therapies from ritual bathing to modified Ayurveda and biomedicines and clarifies many misconceptions about this little-studied group and its highly unorthodox, powerful ideas about illness and healing.
Leprosy --- Healing --- Aghorīs --- Medical anthropology --- Hansen disease --- Hanseniasis --- Hansen's disease --- Mycobacterial diseases --- Curing (Medicine) --- Therapeutics --- Aghora (Sect) --- Aghorapanthīs --- Aghorī (Sect) --- Aghorīpanthīs --- Śaivism --- Kāpālikas --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Anthropology --- Treatment --- Religious aspects --- Aghorīs. --- Rituals. --- Anthropological aspects --- Anthropologie médicale --- Lèpre --- Traitement --- aghor medicine. --- aghor therapy. --- aghori. --- anthropology. --- ayurveda. --- biomedicines. --- cannibalism. --- charnel grounds. --- conflict. --- coprophagy. --- corpses. --- cremation grounds. --- cremation. --- death. --- hardship. --- healing powers. --- healing. --- health. --- human skulls. --- illness and health. --- india. --- kapalas. --- living naked. --- medical anthropology. --- medical conditions. --- meditation. --- multicultural medicine. --- northern india. --- political organization. --- politics. --- pollution. --- post mortem rites. --- radical. --- ritual bathing. --- ritually polluted substances. --- skull cups. --- stigmatized diseases.
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The crowning cultural achievement of medieval India, Tantric Buddhism is known in the West primarily for the sexual practices of its adherents, who strive to transform erotic passion into spiritual ecstasy. Historians of religion have long held that the enlightenment thus attempted was for men only, and that women in the movement were at best marginal and subordinated and at worst degraded and exploited. Miranda Shaw argues to the contrary, presenting extensive new evidence of the outspoken and independent female founders of the Tantric movement and their creative role in shaping its distinctive vision of gender relations and sacred sexuality.
Abhayadatta. --- Aghori Vimalananda. --- Akanistha heaven. --- Arrow-making Yogini. --- Babhaha. --- Bhakti movements. --- Bhattacharyya, Narendra Nath. --- Buddha couple. --- Buddhahood. --- Chinese pilgrims. --- Dasgupta, Shashibhusan. --- Durjayacandra. --- Guneru. --- Heruka. --- Hindu Tantra. --- Jambhala. --- Jungian interpretation. --- Kambalā. --- Kantali. --- Klein, Anne. --- Lalitavistara. --- Madhyamaka. --- Maitrīpa. --- Odantapurī. --- Padmalocanā. --- Padmavajra. --- Queen Máyá. --- Rahulavajra. --- Ratnavajra. --- Saraha. --- behavior of the left. --- bliss and emptiness. --- bone ornaments. --- camphor. --- celibacy. --- coronation rituals. --- cremation grounds. --- dance. --- embracing. --- emptiness. --- enlightenment. --- fasting ritual. --- female authorship. --- great passion. --- inner yoga. --- intimacy in Tantric practice. --- low-caste women. --- maṇtrinaḥ. --- menstrual blood. --- passion. --- rainbow body.
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In 1921 a traveling religious man appeared in eastern British Bengal. Soon residents began to identify this half-naked and ash-smeared sannyasi as none other than the Second Kumar of Bhawal--a man believed to have died twelve years earlier, at the age of twenty-six. So began one of the most extraordinary legal cases in Indian history. The case would rivet popular attention for several decades as it unwound in courts from Dhaka and Calcutta to London. This narrative history tells an incredible story replete with courtroom drama, sexual debauchery, family intrigue, and squandered wealth. With a novelist's eye for interesting detail, Partha Chatterjee sifts through evidence found in official archives, popular songs, and backstreet Bangladeshi bookshops. He evaluates the case of the man claiming, with the support of legions of tenants and relatives, to be the long-lost Kumar. And he considers the position of the sannyasi's detractors, including the colonial government and the Kumar's young widow, who resolutely refused to meet the man she denounced as an impostor. Along the way, Chatterjee introduces us to a fascinating range of human character, gleans insights into the nature of human identity, and examines the relation between scientific evidence, legal truth, and cultural practice. The story he tells unfolds alongside decades of Indian history. Its plot is shaped by changing gender and class relations and punctuated by critical historical events, including the onset of World War II, the Bengal famine of 1943, and the Great Calcutta Killings. And by identifying the earliest erosion of colonialism and the growth of nationalist thinking within the organs of colonial power, Chatterjee also gives us a secret history of Indian nationalism.
Roy, Ramendra Narayan, --- Trials, litigation, etc. --- Aghori Baba. --- Allahabad. --- Armanitola (Dhaka). --- Arsenic poisoning. --- Benaras. --- Bengali (language). --- Board of Revenue. --- Buddhism. --- Chatterjee, Bejoy Chandra. --- Chaudhuri, Amiya Nath. --- Court of Wards. --- Darjeeling. --- Dasgupta, Ashutosh. --- Dharamdas Naga. --- East India Company. --- Fitzgerald, Captain. --- Ganga River. --- Ghose, Sasanka Coomar. --- Ghosh, Kali Prasanna. --- Hardwar. --- Hindustani (language). --- Indian Civil Service. --- Jaidebpur. --- Jyotirmayi Debi. --- Kasimpur. --- Lansdowne Road. --- Lowis Jubilee Sanitarium. --- MacGilchrist, A. C. --- Meyer, H.C.F. --- Mukherjee, Surendra Nath. --- Mymensingh. --- Nalgola. --- Ogilvie. --- Panchet, Raja of. --- Pratapchand. --- Punjab. --- Quarry. --- Singh, Mal. --- Step Aside. --- Tarinmayi Debi.
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