Imaginative Realization in the Vijñānabhairava Tantra

<p class="Standard">Among the religious traditions that developed in ancient India, the Tantric tradition offers one of the most vigorous efforts at vindicating the powers of the imagination. A key term in this context is <em>bhāvanā</em>, literally the “act of bringing s...

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Autor principal:	Óscar Figueroa
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Publicado:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2017
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:4e6bae6d016a410bb9794e12d026f3652021-12-02T16:53:53ZImaginative Realization in the Vijñānabhairava Tantra2339-852310.5565/rev/indialogs.89https://doaj.org/article/4e6bae6d016a410bb9794e12d026f3652017-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/indialogs/article/view/89https://doaj.org/toc/2339-8523<p class="Standard">Among the religious traditions that developed in ancient India, the Tantric tradition offers one of the most vigorous efforts at vindicating the powers of the imagination. A key term in this context is <em>bhāvanā</em>, literally the “act of bringing something into being”, used to indicate a disciplined cultivation of the mind’s natural capacity to form images. This brief article addresses the meaning of <em>bhāvanā</em> in the <em>Vijñānabhairava Tantra</em> (VBh), a short scripture written in the spirit of the Śaiva Tantric Trika tradition around the first half of the 9th century CE. In this text, as the article shows, <em>bhāvanā</em> is understood not only as a human faculty but now also as a divine power with important ontological and soteriological implications. In this way, the centrality of the imagination common to many Tantric texts reaches a remarkable zenith in the VBh, anticipating the view of later influential thinkers such as Abhinavagupta and Kṣemarāja (10th-11th centuries).</p>Óscar FigueroaUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelonaarticleimagination and religion, contemplation, hinduism, tantra, vijñānabhairava tantraGeneral WorksAENESIndialogs: Spanish Journal of India Studies, Vol 5, Iss 0, Pp 29-40 (2017)
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description	<p class="Standard">Among the religious traditions that developed in ancient India, the Tantric tradition offers one of the most vigorous efforts at vindicating the powers of the imagination. A key term in this context is <em>bhāvanā</em>, literally the “act of bringing something into being”, used to indicate a disciplined cultivation of the mind’s natural capacity to form images. This brief article addresses the meaning of <em>bhāvanā</em> in the <em>Vijñānabhairava Tantra</em> (VBh), a short scripture written in the spirit of the Śaiva Tantric Trika tradition around the first half of the 9th century CE. In this text, as the article shows, <em>bhāvanā</em> is understood not only as a human faculty but now also as a divine power with important ontological and soteriological implications. In this way, the centrality of the imagination common to many Tantric texts reaches a remarkable zenith in the VBh, anticipating the view of later influential thinkers such as Abhinavagupta and Kṣemarāja (10th-11th centuries).</p>
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Imaginative Realization in the Vijñānabhairava Tantra

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