STUDIES IN TARA-TANTRA: An Introduction to the Dasamahavidyas and an Exclusive and Exhaustive work on Tara, Worship of Goddess Tara and Tara Sadhakas like Acarya Brahmananda Giri, Sadhaka Bamakhyapa and Sri Anandamayi Ma
by Datta, Parimal Kumar
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Kolkata (Calcutta): Punthi Pustak, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xiv + 348pp. Simple cardboard binding with dust jacket. Black and white photographs at end of volume. The dust jacket flaps have been affixed to the inside of the cardboard. PLEASE NOTE: this is a horribly bound book! It is a good copy only. Buy it strictly for the information within, which is quite informative and available nowhere else. An exhaustive and exclusive study on the Taravidya. It contains the original texts of Taratantra and deals with the Tara-cult including the form of Tara, mantras of Tara, Taradhyanas, Tarakavacam, Taradiksa and detailed methods of Tara -worship. This book is enriched with the origin myth of the Dasamahavidyas, origin of Kali, Bhuvanesvari, Chinna-masta, Dhumavati, Vagalamukhl, Matangi and Kamala; Their forms and mantras, Vasistha's penance, history of Tarapitha, Taratemple, Mahasmasana and Jivitakunda; short life history of Acarya Brahmananda Giri, Sadhaka Bamakhyapa (Vamakhyapa) and Sri Anandamayi Ma.
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- STUDIES IN TARA-TANTRA: An Introduction to the Dasamahavidyas and an Exclusive and Exhaustive work on Tara, Worship of Goddess Tara and Tara Sadhakas like Acarya Brahmananda Giri, Sadhaka Bamakhyapa and Sri Anandamayi Ma
- Author
- Datta, Parimal Kumar
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Punthi Pustak
- Place of Publication
- Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Date Published
- 2013
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- Tantrik Studies / Eastern Esoterica;
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