Scholarly sources for "sacred sexuality" - Discussion
Scholarly sources for "sacred sexuality"
Scholarly sources for "sacred sexuality" | Dada Kind | 6/2/16 6:25 PM |
RE: Scholarly sources for "sacred sexuality" | Nicky | 6/3/16 5:06 AM |
Dada Kind, modified 7 Years ago at 6/2/16 6:25 PM
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Scholarly sources for "sacred sexuality"
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Dunno what else to call it. I'm still fascinated by this stuff but as far as I know there isn't an easy way to wade through the commercialized "neo-Tantra" stuff. To try to remedy that I'm going to make a list of scholarly sources. Naturally, then, these won't be pragmatic. But I hope this will help people who shy away from this whole subject because of the commercialization.
Taoist
Art of the Bedchamber The Chinese Sexual Yoga Classics Including Women's Solo Meditation Texts by Douglas Wile
Hindu Tantric
Kiss of the Yogini: "Tantric Sex" in its South Asian Contexts by David Gordon White
The Power of Tantra: Religion, Sexuality and the Politics of South Asian Studies by Hugh B. Urban
Buddhist Tantric
List of Essays on Sexuality by Keith Dowman
Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism by Miranda Shaw
Western esoteric, occult
Hidden Intercourse: Eros and Sexuality in the History of Western Esotericism by Wouter Hanegraaff
Magia Sexualis: Sex, Magic, and Liberation in Modern Western Esotericism by Hugh B. Urban
The Secret History of Western Sexual Mysticism: Sacred Practices and Spiritual Marriage by Arthur Versluis
Eros and Magic in the Renaissance by Ioan P. Culianu
Moshe Idel - Kabbalah and Eros
Sufi
Mysticism and Sexuality in Sufi Thought and Life by Valerie J. Hoffman-Ladd
Themes of 'The Erotic' in Sufi Mysticism by Jonah Winters
Taoist
Art of the Bedchamber The Chinese Sexual Yoga Classics Including Women's Solo Meditation Texts by Douglas Wile
Hindu Tantric
Kiss of the Yogini: "Tantric Sex" in its South Asian Contexts by David Gordon White
The Power of Tantra: Religion, Sexuality and the Politics of South Asian Studies by Hugh B. Urban
Buddhist Tantric
List of Essays on Sexuality by Keith Dowman
Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism by Miranda Shaw
Western esoteric, occult
Hidden Intercourse: Eros and Sexuality in the History of Western Esotericism by Wouter Hanegraaff
Magia Sexualis: Sex, Magic, and Liberation in Modern Western Esotericism by Hugh B. Urban
The Secret History of Western Sexual Mysticism: Sacred Practices and Spiritual Marriage by Arthur Versluis
Eros and Magic in the Renaissance by Ioan P. Culianu
Moshe Idel - Kabbalah and Eros
Sufi
Mysticism and Sexuality in Sufi Thought and Life by Valerie J. Hoffman-Ladd
Themes of 'The Erotic' in Sufi Mysticism by Jonah Winters
Nicky, modified 7 Years ago at 6/3/16 5:06 AM
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RE: Scholarly sources for "sacred sexuality"
Posts: 484 Join Date: 8/2/14 Recent Posts Focusing on one of the oldest and most important Tantric traditions, based in Assam, northeast India, Hugh B. Urban shows that Tantra is less about optimal sexual pleasure than about harnessing the divine power of the goddess that flows alike through the cosmos, the human body and political society.
It is said in the old books the Buddha taught:
(1) a husband should serve his wife;
(2) upon being served, a wife should (conditionally) return her love;
(3) a husband should grant his wife authority in the home (thus also in the bedroom); and
(4) a woman's ideal towards a man is domination.
This sounds like Tantra, surrendering to a woman until a man clearly discerns her needs, wants & natural morality.
“And what Master Gotama, is a woman’s aim?”
“A man, O brahmin, is a woman’s aim, her quest is for adornments, her mainstay is sons, her desire is to be without a co-wife and her ideal is domination.”
http://www.bps.lk/olib/wh/wh208-u.html#28.TheAimsofPeople