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Summary / ZusammenfassungRecent publications (appeared from 1980s) in Europe and America link various tantric traditionsand the experiences of special states of consciousness (ASC) such as voluntary possession,encounter with non-human beings and a whole range of particular psychological capacities varyingfrom predicting future to the ability of changing material world. The aim of the present research isto discover historical grounds for such link. The western transcreations of tantric texts (analyzed inchapter 1) are to be contrasted with the material found in Vidyapitha texts themselves (chapter 2)and particularly in the Jayadrathayamala, the text which indeed proposes various techniquessupposed to result in modified states of perception. I shall demonstrate that it was rather internalEuropean development of the concepts around "altered states of consciousness" than the textualstudy of the early shaiva tantras that permitted the named link. The final part of my research(chapter 3) shall establish relations between two historical sequences of related concepts called todefine "Tantra" on the one hand and "altered states of consciousness" on the other. It shall alsocontribute to some methodological questions such as problems of translation and transcreation, andwill propose new strategies of making the tantric concepts comprehensible for the western public.

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Translating the Non-Evident: Altered States of Consciousness in Vidyapitha Tantras andin Western Transcreations of Tantrism

Publications / Publikationen

A Tentative Reconstruction of the Relative Chronology of the Shaiva Puranic and Shaiva TantricTexts on the Basis of the Yogini-related Passages. In: Parallels and Comparisons. Proceedings of the Fourth Dubrovnik International Conference on the Sanskrit Epics and Puranas, September 2005. Zagreb: Academia Scientiarum et Artium Croatica, 2009, p. 313-348.

Sri Anirvan. Une Introduction. In: Sri Anirvan. Antara Yoga, Le yoga intérieur. Infolio Editions,2009. P. 15-31.

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Project Leadership and Contacts / Projektleitung und Kontakte

Dr. Olga Serbaeva Saraogi, PhD (Project Leader) olga.serbaeva@access.uzh.ch

Prof. Dr. Angelika Malinar, PhD malinar@access.uzh.ch

Keywords / Suchbegriffe

Tantras, altered states of consciousness, avesha ( ! ve "a), translation ans transcreation, Western

esotericism

Funding Source(s) / Unterstützt durch

Other Links to external Webpages / Andere Links zu externen Webseiten

http://www.indologie.uzh.ch/

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(UFSP) Asien und EuropaDrittmittel der Gebert Rüf Stiftung: März 2007- Januar 2008 UFSPAsien und Europa: Februar 2008 - Juni 2010

Prof. em. Dr. Peter Schreiner, Abteilung für Indologie, Universität Zürich

Duration of Project / Projektdauer

Mar 2007 to Jun 2010

Switzerland

In Collaboration with / In Zusammenarbeit mit

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