Renowned Goddess of Desire: Women, Sex, and Speech in Tantra

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Tantra is a family of rituals modeled on those of the Vedas and their attendant texts and lineages. These rituals typically involve the visualization of a deity, offerings, and the chanting of his or her mantra. Common variations include visualizing the deity in the act of sexual union with a consort, visualizing oneself as the deity, and "transgressive" acts such as token consumption of meat or alcohol. Most notoriously, non-standard or ritualized sex is sometimes practiced. This accounts for Tantra's negative reputation in some quarters and its reception in the West primarily as a collection of sexual practices. Although some today extol Tantra's liberating qualities, the role of women remains controversial. Traditionally there are two views of women and Tantra. Either the feminine is a metaphor and actual women are altogether absent, or Tantra involves the transgressive use of women's bodies to serve male interests. Loriliai Biernacki presents an alternative view, in which women are revered, worshipped, and considered worthy of spiritual attainment. Her primary sources are a collection of eight relatively modern Tantric texts written in Sanskrit from the 15th through the 18th century. Her analysis of these texts reveals a view of women that is generally positive and empowering. She focuses on four topics: 1) the "Kali Practice," in which women appear not only as objects of reverence but as practitioners and gurus; 2) the Tantric sex rite, especially in the case that, contrary to other Tantric texts, the preference is for wives as ritual consorts; 3) feminine language and the gendered implications of mantra; and 4) images of male violence towards women in tantric myths. Biernacki, by choosing to analyse eight particular Sanskrit texts, argues that within the tradition of Tantra there exists a representation of women in which the female is an authoritative, powerful, equal participant in the Tantric ritual practice.





Author of this book is mentality retarded she does not know anything about Hindu Goddess nor any ground study she tried her best to grabe attention of public.....even naked beggar can attract attention of peoples. This book is completely misleading. everything is wrong theory and her research. all is crap in this book

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baba_maal, cheer up! The problem with religion is that many things that human minds won't accept as rational are given cover of sacredness, that is forbidden to speak about and have a different viewpoint. Most religions are not heavenly, they are man-made and most religions are now outdated. Human civilization has progressed leaps and bounds, but religions have been ill-intentionally kept static due interest and survival of the clergy of each religion. Any religion which is not dynamic and cannot keep pace with time will stagnate over the time. Only our false values, biases and stupid prides keep outdated religions as reference.

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the world would be perfect if everyone thought like you

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