1st Edition
An Indian Tantric Tradition and Its Modern Global Revival Contemporary Nondual Śaivism
By D.E. Osto
Copyright 2020
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book analyzes the contemporary global revival of Nondual Saivism, a thousand-year-old medieval Hindu religious philosophy. Providing a historical overview of the seminal people and groups responsible for the revival, the book compares the tradition’s medieval Indian origins to modern forms, which are situated within distinctively contemporary religious, economic and technological contexts.... Read more
Introduction, 1. Saiva Tantra and the origins of Nondual Saiva Theosophy, 2. Nondual Saiva Theosophy, 3. Swami Lakshman Joo and his legacy, 4. Swami Muktananda and the Siddha Yoga legacy, 5. The scholar-practitioners, 6. Consuming Nondual Saivism, 7. Caveat Emptor: power, sex and money in contemporary Nondual Saivism, 8. Recovering Nondual Saivism: an autoethnography, Conclusion
Biography
D.E. Osto is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Massey University, New Zealand. He is the author of Altered States: Buddhism and Psychedelic Spirituality in America (2016), and Power, Wealth and Women in Indian Mahayana Buddhism: The Ga¿¿avyuha-sutra (Routledge, 2008).
