Bibliográfia
TANTRA
Eredeti szövegek:
Védák és Védangák:
Ahirbudhnya Samhitā . [ed.&intr.: Schrader, Otto; Madras, 1916.]
Atharva Veda . [transl.: Bloomfield, M.; Oxford, 1897.]
Atharva Veda Samhitā. [Vols. I-II. transl.: Whitney, W.D., revised, ed.: Lanman, C.R.;
Cambridge, Mass, 1905.]
Bhāvanopanisad . [transl.: Mitra, S.; Madras, 1976.]
Bhrigu-Samhitā . [in the collection of ‘Pandit Vishnu Narāyana’, London, N.d.]
Ganita Kaumudi of Narāyana Pandita . [ed.: Shastri, M.D.; Banaras, 1942.]
Hymns of the Rig Veda . [Vols. I.-II. transl.: Griffith, R.T.H.; Banaras, 1862.]
Sākta Upanisad . [transl.: Krishna, W.A.G.; Madras, 1967.]
Yajur Veda . [transl.: Griffiths, R.T.H.; London, 1899.]
Yoga Upanisads . [transl.: Srinivasa, Ayyangar & ed.: Murti, Srinavasa; Madras, 1952.]
Vidyalankar, S. - The Holy Vedas . [Delhi, 1983.]
Magyarul:
Rigvéda - Teremtéshimnuszok . [ford.: Fórizs László; Farkas Lőrinc Imre Kiadó,
Budapest, 1995.]
Upanisadok I-II-III. . (Bŗhadāraņyaka Upanishad) [ford.: Tenigl-Takács László; Farkas
Lőrinc Imre Kiadó, Budapest, 1994.]
Sankara - A Brahma-szútra magyarázata . [ford.: Ruzsa Ferenc; Kossuth, Budapest, 1996.]
Sankara - A Védánta Filozófiája . [ford.: Fajd Ernő; Farkas Lőrinc Imre Kiadó, Budapest, 1996.]
Puránák:
Bhagavad-Gíta . [transl.: Prabhavananda, Swami and Isherwood, Christopher; New York, 1972.]
Devibhagāvata Purāna. [transl.: Vijnanda, Swami.; Allahabad, 1921-3.]
Kālikā Purāna . [transl.&intr.: Kooij, K.R. van; Leiden, 1972.]
Mārkandeya Purāna. [transl.: Pargiter, E.F.; Calcutta, 1904.]
Worship of the Goddess according to the Kālikā Purāna . [Part I. transl.&intr.+notes:
Kooij, K.R. van; Leiden, 1972.]
Magyarul:
Bhagavad-Gítā - A Magasztos Szózata . [ford.: Lakatos István; Európa, Budapest, 1987.]
Az Eredeti Bhagavad-Gítā . [The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1989.]
Indiai regék és mondák . [ford.: Baktay Ervin; Móra, Budapest, 1977.]
Srímad Bhagāvatam (1-12) . [The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1992-1996.]
Rámajána és Mahábharata . [ford.: Baktay Ervin; Európa, Budapest, 1960.]
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A 84 Mahásziddha legendái . [ford.: Soós Sándor; kézirat].
Dzsajadéva - Gíta Govinda . [ford.: Weöres Sándor; Magvető, Budapest, 1982.]
Tantrák:
Gandharva Tantra . [ed.&intr.: Kak, R.C. & Shastri, H.; Srinagar, 1934.]
Guhyasamāja Tantra . [Bagchi, S.; Darbhanga, 1965.]
Kali Tantram . [ed.& Hindi transl.: Sukla, R.; Prayag, 1972-3.]
Kāma-Kalā-Vilāsa . [ed.&transl.: Avalon, A.; Madras, 1953.]
Kāmaratna Tantra . [ed.&intr.: Goswami, T.; Shillong, 1928.]
Karpurādistotra . [ed.: Avalon, A.; Calcutta, 1922.]
Kaulāvalinirnayah of Jnānanda Paramahamsa . [transl.: Avalon, A.; Calcutta, 1928.]
Kulārnava Tantra . [ed.&intr.: Avalon, A.; Madras, 1965.]
Laksmi Tantra . [transl.: Gupta, S.; Leiden, 1972.]
Lalitāsahasranāman & Bāhskārya komm. [transl.: Ananthakrishna, S.R.; Madras, 1972.]
Mahānirvāna Tantra - The Tantra of Great Liberation . [transl.: Avalon, A.; New York, 1972.]
Mahesvara Tantra . [ed.& Hindi transl.: Misra, N.M..; Bombay, 1902.]
Mālinivijayottara Tantra (Sri) . [ed.: Shastri, M.; Bombay, 1922.]
Nispannayogāvali . [ed.: Bhattacharyya, B.; Baroda, 1949.]
Nityasodasikarnava . [komm.: Vidyananda, S. & A.; Banaras, 1968.]
Rishi Mandala Yantra Puja . [Hindi transl.: Shastri, M.; Bombay, 1915.]
Sākta-Darsana of Hayagríva . [ed.&intr.: Abhyankar, K.V.; Poona, 1966.]
Sāktapramodah . [Bombay, 1931.]
Sākta Upanisad . [transl.: Krishna, W.A.G.; Madras, 1967.]
Sāktisangama Tantra . (Sundarikhand) [ed.&transl.: Bhattacharyya, B.; Baroda, 1947.]
Sāradātilaka Tantra . [ed.&intr.: Avalon, A.; Calcutta, 1933.]
Sat-Chakra-nirupana . [in Woodroffe (Avalon, A.) - The Serpent Power ; Madras, 1952.]
Saundaryalahari - The Flood of Beauty . [ed.&transl.: Brown, N.W.; Cambridge, Mass, 1958.]
Saundarya-Lahari with comm. [transl.: Sastri, S.S.& Ayyangar, T.R.S.; Madras, 1972.]
Silpa-Prakāsa by Ramachandra Kaulacara . [transl.: Boner, A.& Sarma, S.R.; Leiden, 1966.]
Siva Samhitā . [transl.: Vasu, Chandra; Allahabad, 1905.]
Srichakrasambhara Tantra . [ed.: Samdeep, K.D.; Calcutta, 1919.]
Tantrabidhāna + Vija-Nighantu & Mudrā-Nighantu . [ed.: Avalon, A. & Vidyāranta, T.;
Calcutta, 1913.]
Tantrarāja Tantra . [ed.: Woodroffe, Sir John; Madras, 1954.]
Tantrasāra . [ed.: Vagisa, Sri Krishnananda; Banaras, 1938.]
Tantrasāra (Brihat) of Krishnananda Agamvagish . [Vols. I-II. ed.& Bengali transl.:
Mukhopadhyay, U. & S.; Calcutta, n.d.]
Tantra-tattva . (Principles of Tantra) [Vols. I-II. ed.: Woodroffe, Sir John; Madras, 1953.]
Tantric Sāhitya . (in Hindi) [+ comm.: Kaviraj, Gopinath; Banaras, 1972.]
Tārā-Bhakti-Sudhārnava . [ed.&intr.: Avalon, A.; Calcutta, 1940.]
Tārā-Rahasyam . [ed.& Hindi comm.: Shastri, S.; Banaras, 1970.]
Uddisi Tantra of Ravana or Mahadeva. [Hindi transl.: Diksita, R.; Delhi, n.d.]
Vākyapadiyam (Brahmakanda) of Bhartrhari . [transl.: Varma, S.; New Delhi, 1970.]
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Varivasyā-Rahasyam . [ed.: Sastri, S.; Madras, 1968.]
Vāstusāstra . Vol. I. with special reference to Samaranganasutradhāra of Bhoja . [transl.:
Sukla, D.N.; Chandigarh, 1960.]
Yantra Samskārapaddhiti . (in Hindi) [Tract No.11. by Kanhailal; in Miscellaneous Tracts
(Laxmi Narayam Press), Moradabad, 1899.]
Yantracintāmani . [Hindi transl.: Misra, B.P.; Bombay, 1967.]
Yantrasāra Tantram . in Tantrasāra . [ed.: Chattopadhyaya, R.; Calcutta, 1292 BS.]
Yogini-Hridaya. [+ comm. by Dipikā of Amritānanda and Setubandha of Bhāskara Rāya;
Banaras, 1963.]
Egyébb:
Acharya, P.K. - Mānasāra . [(Architecture of ~); London, 1933-4.]
Chetanānanda, Swāmi {transl.} - Avadhuta Gitā of Dattātreya : The Song of the Everfree .
[Calcutta, 1973.]
Growse, F.S. - The Rāmayāna of Tulasidāsa . [Delhi, 1987.]
Kumar, S. - The Vision of Kabir . [Ontario, 1984.]
Mahadevan, T.M.P. - The Hymns of Sankara . [New Delhi, 1986.]
Miller, B.S. {transl.} - Jayadeva’s Gitāgovinda : The Lovesong of the Dark Lord . [New
York, 1977.]
Patanjala - Yoga-Sutra . [transl.: Bengali Baba; Poona 1949.]
Pratyagatmananda, Saraswati - Japa Sutram . [Madras, 1971.]
Shankaranarayanam, S. - Devimahātmyam : Glory of the Divine Mother . [Pondicherry, 1968.]
Tagore, R. - Songs of Kabir . [New Delhi, 1985.]
Magyarul:
Patandzsali - Jógaszútra . [ford.: Fórizs László; in Dhammapada - Az erény útja . Farkas
Lőrinc Imre, Budapest, 1994.]
Szakirodalom:
Tantra
Avalon, Arthur - Tantra of the Great Liberation . [Dover, New York, 1972.]
Basham, A.L. - The Wonder that was India . [London, 1967.]
Beane, Wendell Charles - Myth, Cult and Symbols in Sākta Hinduism . [Leiden, 1977.]
Bharati, Agehananda - The Tantric Tradition . [Doubleday, Garden City, 1970.]
Burghart, R. - Indian Religion . [London, 1985.]
Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. - Dance of Siva . [New Delhi, 1973.]
Das, S. - Sakti and Divine Power . [Calcutta, 1934.]
Dasgupta, S.R. - Obscure Religious Cults . [Calcutta, 1946.]
Deussen, Paul - The Philosophy of the Upanishads . [New York, 1966.]
Eliade, Mircea - The Two and the One . [London, 1962.]
Gonda, J. - Aspects of Early Vishnuism . [Utrecht, 1954.]
- Change and Continuity in Indian Religion . [The Hague, 1965.]
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- Vishnuism and Saivism - A Comparison . [London, 1970.]
Jansen, M. - The Indus Civilization . [Cologne, 1986.]
Kinsley, David R. - The Sword and the Flute - Kāli and Krisna . [Berkeley, 1975.]
Mahdihassan, S. - Indian Alchemy or Rasayana . [Motilal Banarsidass, New Delhi, 1991.]
Monier-Williams, M. - Brahmanism and Hinduism - Religious Life and Thoughts in India .
[London, 1891.]
Monier-Williams - A Sanskrit-English Dictionary . [New Delhi, 1974.]
Mookerje, Ajit & Madhu Khanna - The Tantric Way . [London, New York, 1977.]
Prabhavananda, Swami - The Spiritual Heritage of India . [London, 1962.]
Radhakrishnan, S. - History of Philosophy, Eastern and Western . [Vol. I., London ,1973.]
Rawson, Philip - Tantra, The Indian Cult of Ecstasy . [Thames&Hudson, Singapore, 1989.]
Saraswati, Sunyata & Avinasha, Bodhi - Jewel in the Lotus . [Tantrika International, 1994.]
Sharma Ācārya, Sri Rāma - The Great Science and Philosophy of Gāyātri . [Mathura, 1991.]
Sharma, C. - A Critical Survey of Indian Philosophy . [Mathura, 1991.]
Sullivan, H.D. - A Reexamination of the Religion of the Indus Civilization . [in ‘History of
Religion’ Vol. 4. (1): 115-25, 1964.]
Varenne, Jean - Yoga and the Hindu Tradition . [Delhi, 1979.]
Wheeler, M. - The Indus Civilization . [Cambridge, 1968.]
Magyarul:
Eliade, Mircea - Az Örök Visszatérés Mítosza . [Európa, Budapest, 1993.]
Eliade, Mircea - A Jóga - Halhatatlanság és Szabadság . [Európa, Budapest, 1996.]
Eliade, Mircea - Vallási Hiedelmek és Eszmék Története . [Osiris-Századvég, Budapest 1994.]
Glasenapp, Helmut von - Az Öt Világvallás . [Gondolat, 1987.]
Kaczvinszky József - Kelet Világossága I-II-III. . [Kötet, Nyíregyháza, 1994-95.]
Paul Brunton - India Titkai . [Sorger Kolon, 1991.]
Stefanovics Attila - A mágikus gondolkodás megnyilvánulásai a buddhista szahadzsíják
kultuszában . [Szakdolgozat, Tan Kapuja Buddhista Fõiskola, 1996.]
Tenigl-Takács László (szerk.) - India Bölcsessége . [Tan Kapuja, Budapest, 1994.]
Wojtilla Gyula - A mesés India . [Gondolat, Budapest, 1988.]
Waterstone, Richard - India . [MKK-Helikon, Budapest, 1996.]
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Yantra-Mantra
Blair, L. - Rhythms of Vision . [London, 1975.]
Bolton, N.J. & D. Nicol, G. M. - The Geometry of Sri Yantra . [in ‘A Journal of Religion
and Religions’, Vol. 7: 66-85., Spring 1977.]
Boner, Alice - Principles of Composition in Hindu Sculpture . [Leiden, 1962.]
- The Symbolic Aspect of Form . [in ‘Journal of Indian Society of Oriental Art’,
Vol. XVII: 40., 1949.]
Cammann, Schuyler - Islamic and Indian Magic Squares . [in ‘History of Religion’ Vol.8.
No.2.: 275-286.]
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Campbell, J. - The Masks of God - Oriental Mythology . [London, 1962.]
Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. - Figures of Speech or Figures of Thought . [London, 1946.]
- The Transformation of Nature in Art . [New York, 1956.]
Inderjit, I. - Science of Symbols . [New Delhi, 1978.]
Jhavery, M.B. - Comparative and Critical Study of Mantrasāstra . [Ahmedabad, 1944.]
Kramrisch, Stella - The Hindu Temple . [Vols. I.-II., Calcutta, 1971.]
Madhu Khanna - Yantra, the tantric symbol of cosmic unity . [Thames&Huddson, London, 1981.]
Prott, P.H. - Yoga and Yantra . [The Hague, 1966.]
Tucci, Giuseppe - The Theory and Practice of the Mandala . [London, 1961.]
Shamasastry, R. - The Origin of the Devanāgari Alphabets . [Varanasi, 1973.]
Shankaranarayanan, S. - Sri Chakra . [Pondicherry, 1970.]
Woodroffe, Sir John - The Garland of Letters - Studies in the Mantrasāstra . [Madras, 1952.]
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Szimbolizmus & Ikonográfia
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Boner, A. & S.R. Sarma & R.P. Das - New Light on the Sun Temple of Konārka .
[Varanasi, 1972.]
Gopinatha Rao, T.A. - Elements of Hindu Iconography . [New York, 1968.]
Kramrisch, Stella - Art of India . [London, 1955.]
Mitter, P. - Much Maligned Monsters . [London, 1977.]
Mookerje, Ajit - Tantra Art . [Paris, New York, 1967.]
- Yoga Art . [London, New York, 1975.]
Mus, Paul - Barabudur . [Hanoi, 1935.]
O’Flaherty, Wendy Doniger - Women, Androgynes and Other Mythical Beasts . [Chicago, 1980].
- Sexual Metaphors and Animal Symbolism in Indian Mythology .
[Delhi, 1980.]
- Asceticism and Eroticism in the Mythology of Siva .
[London, 1973.]
- The Symbolism of Ashes in the Mythology of Siva . [in ‘Purāna’
Vol. XIII. (1): 26-35., 1971.]
- The Symbolism of the Tird Eye of Siva in the Purānas . [in ‘Purāna’
Vol. XI. (2): 26-35., 1971.]
Rawson, Philip - The Art of Tantra . [London, New York, 1973.]
Roebuck, V.J. - Weapons as Symbols in Hindu Art . [in Werner, K. (ed.) - ‘Symbols in Art
and Religion’, London, 1990.]
Smith, D. - Aspects of the Symbolism of Fire . [in Werner, K. (ed.) - ‘Symbols in Art and
Religion’, London, 1990.]
Srikantha Sastri - The Iconography of the Srividyaranava Tantra . [in ‘The Quaterly
Journal of the Mythic Society, Vol XXIV; No.1.-4., 1943-44.]
Zimmer, H. - Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization . [Washington, 1946.]
Werner, K. (ed.) - Symbols in Art and Religion . [London, 1990.]
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Magyarul:
Baktay Ervin - India Művészete I.-II. . [Képzőművészeti Alap, Budapest, 1981.]
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Életmód
Briggs, George W. - Goraknāth and the Kānphatā Yogis . [Delhi, 1973.]
Bhagat, M.G. - Ancient Indian Asceticism . [New Delhi, 1976.]
Bhardwaj, S.M. - Hindu Places of Pilgrimage in India . [Berkeley, 1973.]
Burghart, R. - Wandering Ascetics of the Rāmānandi Sect . [in ‘History of Religions’ Vol.
22.: 361-80., 1983.]
Burghart, R. - Secret Vocabularies of the “Great Renouncers” of the Rāmānandi Sect . [in
‘Early Hindu Devotional Literature’: 17-31., 1980.]
Burghart, R. - The Founding of the Rāmānandi Sect . [in ‘Ethnohistory’ Vol. 25.: 121-39.,
1978.]
Chakraborti, H. - Asceticism in Ancient India, in Brāhmanical, Buddhist, Jaina and Ājivika
Societies (from the Earliest Times of the Period of Sankarāchārya) . [Calcutta, 1973.]
Eck, D.L. - Benares - City of Light . [London, 1983.]
Entwistle, A.W. - Vaishnava Tilakas . [in ‘IAVRI Bulletin’ 11. & 12., London, 1982.]
- Braj - Centre of Krishna Pilgrimage . [Groningen, 1987.]
Ghurye, G.S. - Indian Sādhus . [Bombay, 1964.]
Hartsuiker, Dolf - Sādhus - Holy Men of India . [Thames&Hudson, Singapore, 1993.]
Kinsley, David R. - Through the looking glass: Divine Madness in the Hindu Religious
Tradition . [in ‘History of Religions’ Vol.13-(14): 270-305., 1974.]
Lorenzen, D.N. - The Kāpālikas and Kālāmukhas - Two Lost Saivite Sects . [Los Angeles,
1972.]
Morinis, E.A. - Pilgrimage in the Hindu Tradition . [Oxford, 1984.]
Omont, H. - The Book of Marvels . [Paris, 1907.]
Parry, J.P. - The Aghori Ascetics of Benares . [in Burghart, R. & Cantlie, A. (ed.) - ‘Indian
Religion’, London, 1985.]
Pratyagatmananda, Saraswati & Woodroffe, John - Sādhanā for Self-realization . [Madras, 1963.]
Sinha, S. & B. Saraswati - Ascetics of Kāshi . [Varanasi, 1978.]
Skurzak, L. - Studies in the Origins of Indian Asceticism . [Wroclaw, 1948.]
Thiel-Horstmann, M. - On the Dual Identity of Nāgās . [in ‘Devotion Divine’, Paris, 1991.]
Thomas, P. - Festivals and Holidays of India . [Bombay, 1971.]
Tripathi, B.D. - Sādhus of India . [Bombay, 1978.]
Unbescheid, G. - Kānpathā . [Wiesbaden, 1980.]
Vasudevāchārya, Swāmi - A Teacher, not a Preacher . [Ayodhya, 1990.]
Veer, P.T. van der - Gods on Earth . [Groningen, 1986.]
Werner, K. (ed.) - The Yogi and the Mystic . [London, 1989.]
- Szex (marithuna):
Burton, Sir Richard - The Hindu Art of Love . [Castle Books, New York, o. J.].
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Daniélou, Alain - L’érotisme divinsé . [Paris 1962.]
Dimock, E.C. - The Place of the Hidden Moon - Erotic Mysticism in the VaishnavaSahajiya Cult of Bengal . [Chicago, 1966.]
Gonda, J. - Ascetics and Courtesans . [in ‘The Adyar Bulletin’: 78-102.]
Isacco, E. - Krishna - The Divine Lover . [London, 1982.]
Siegel, L. - Sacred and Profane Dimensions of Love in Indian Tradition as Exemplified in
the Gitāgovinda of Jayadeva . [Delhi, 1978.]
Magyarul:
Kaljánamalla - Anangaranga . [Medicina, Budapest, 1986.]
Vátszjájana - Káma-szútra . [Dunakönyv, Budapest, 1993.]
- Drog (mudra):
Aldrich, Michael - Tantric Cannabis Use in India . [Journal of Psychedelic Drugs, 9 (3):
227-233., 1978.]
Dastur, J.F. - Medicinal Plants of India and Pakistan . [Taraporevala, Bombay, 1985.]
Majupuria, T.C. & Joshi, D.P. - Religious and Useful Plants of Nepal and India . [Gupta,
Lalitpur, 1988.]
Morningstar, P.J. - Thandai and Chilam - Traditional Hindu Beliefs About the Proper Use
of Cannabis . [Journal of Psychedelic Drugs, 17 (3): 141-165., 1985.]
Magyarul:
Rätsch, Christian - A szerelem füveskertje . [Terra, Budapest, 1994.]
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Rítus
Abbott, J. - The Keys of Power. - A Study of Indian Ritual and Belief . [London, 1932.]
Avalon, Arthur - Hymns to the Goddess . [Madras, 1973.]
Avalon, Arthur - Sakti and Sākta . [Madras, 1969.]
Daniélou, Alain - Hindu Polytheism . [London,1964.]
Dikshitar, V.R. Ramachandra - The Lalita Cult . [Madras, 1942.]
Dubois, Abbé J.A. - Hindu Manners, Customs and Ceremonies . [New Delhi, 1983.
(1897.)]
Misra, K.C. - The Cult of Jagannatha . [Calcutta, 1971.]
Mukherji, S.K. - Psychology of Image Worship of the Hindus . [Calcutta, c. 1947.]
Picart, B. - Ceremonies and Religious Customs of the People of the World . [Amsterdam, 1723-43.]
Staal, F. - Agni, the Vedic Ritual of the Fire Altar . [Berkeley, 1983.]
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Meditáció
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Avalon, Arthur - The Serpent Power . [Madras, 1953. ; New York, 1974.]
Basham, A.L. - Yoga - A Scientific Evaluation . [New York, 1964.]
Iyengar, B.K.S. - Light on Yoga . [New York, 1977.]
Richards, Steve - Levitation . [Aquarian, Wellinborough, 1980.]
Magyarul:
Baktay Ervin - A diadalmas jóga . [Szukits, Szeged, 1994.]
Pranavánanda, Jógi - Tiszta Jóga . [Szatmári Zsigmond magánkiadás, Szolnok, 1995.]
Weninger Antal - Az Idő Partján . [Tankönyv, Budapest, 1986.]
Weninger Antal - A Keleti Jóga . [Média, Budapest, 1987.]
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