Medieval Jaina Goddess Traditions

Cort, John E.

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“…The medieval period saw the development of different types of Tantric methods and actors within Jainism. Ritual complexes developed around goddesses such as Jvālāmālinī, Padmāvatī, and Sarasvatī as Vāgīśvarī (Cort 1987 ; Wiley 2006 : 209) and to a lesser extent around male figures such as Gautama, Ghaṇṭākarṇa Mahāvīra, and Nākoḍā Bhairava (Dundas 1998 ; Cort 2000b : 417). As these figures do not fit into the Jain soteriological path, Paul Dundas has argued that “they represent through their ability to grant requests and offer protection, an infusion of worldly values and a willingness on the part of Jainism to make some concessions to the more mundane aspirations of lay-followers and potential converts alike” ( 2002 : 213).…”

Section: Jainism and Tantramentioning

confidence: 99%

#MagicMantras: Bhaktamar Mantra Healing Between Jainism and the Spiritual Marketplace

Vekemans

2022

Hindu Studies

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This article addresses Bhaktamar Mantra Healing (BMH), a healing practice based on a popular Jain stotra . After a preliminary discussion of Tantra and Tantric elements in Jainism, BMH is introduced as the most recent layer in a complex tradition that grew around the Bhaktāmar Stotra and conceptualized as a “Tantric reconfiguration”: a relatively recent creative blending of Jain devotional and Tantric elements with some new influences resulting in a systematized, democratized, and (to an extent) commodified brand of spiritual healing available on the spiritual marketplace. It then proceeds to examine BMH’s significant digital media presence to demonstrate how information provided on the effectiveness and mechanics of mantra healing reveals a complex interplay of shifting religious, spiritual, and scientific narratives and how functional differences between different digital media forms impact upon the prevalence of these different narratives. Ultimately, the article argues that approaching BMH as a Tantric reconfiguration emerging from an encounter of a Jain practice with consumer culture is helpful to make sense of what sets BMH apart from other uses of Jain mantra s and of the importance of the digital space BMH has made for itself.

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Section: Jainism and Tantramentioning

confidence: 99%

#MagicMantras: Bhaktamar Mantra Healing Between Jainism and the Spiritual Marketplace

Vekemans

2022

Hindu Studies

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Qvarnström

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Indo-Iranian Journal

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Chastity and desire: representing women in Jainism

Sethi

2009

South Asian History and Culture

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This article explores the Jain construction of womanhood. It analyses how this construction is on the one hand different from Brahminical models, and how on the other it reiterates some of the more common paradigms of Brahmanism. While Brahminical texts have emphasized women's religiosity in their roles as householders, Jainism is distinguished by its recognition of women as independent spiritual agents with the capacity for renunciation and salvation. Not only do the earliest Jain monastic codebooks acknowledge the presence of women renouncers, popular tales about Jain women capable of extreme chastity and asceticism also establish them as the icons of Jain religiosity. However, the Jain imagery in this respect is not uniform, and there exist multiple discursive registers that at once enable and disempower women as autonomous religious beings. Existing alongside the positive portrayals of women's spirituality are deeply misogynist renderings of women as snares and temptresses. How then is the study of women in Jainism significant to our understanding of religion and womanhood in the South Asian context?

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Medieval Jaina Goddess Traditions

Cited by 9 publications

References 5 publications

#MagicMantras: Bhaktamar Mantra Healing Between Jainism and the Spiritual Marketplace

#MagicMantras: Bhaktamar Mantra Healing Between Jainism and the Spiritual Marketplace

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Chastity and desire: representing women in Jainism

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