商品簡介
Timalsina presents students, academics, researchers, and general interest readers with an examination of Tantric images and Indian visual culture. The author has organized the main body of his text in six chapters devoted to image, imagination, and meaning, image and visualization in classical Hinduism, imagining the body in Tantric rituals, materializing space and time in Tantric images, the transformative role of imagination in visualizing the image of Bhairava, and a wide variety of other related subjects. Sthaneshwar Timalsina is a faculty member of San Diego State University, California. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
作者簡介
Sthaneshwar Timalsina (PhD, Martin Luther University) is Professor of Indian Religions and Philosophies in the Department of Religious Studies at San Diego State University. His primary areas of interest include Tantric studies and Indian philosophies. While his early books Seeing and Appearance and Consciousness in Indian Philosophy address various Advaita theories of consciousness, Tantric Visual Culture: A Cognitive Approach explores the cognitive and philosophical domains of the Indian culture of visualization with a focus on Tantric images. Timalsina has also published over three dozen articles and book chapters. He is currently working on the philosophical and psychological aspects of memory, disposition, recognition, imagination, and emotion.
