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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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