[107] Some of the Kplika practices mentioned in these texts are those found in Shaiva Hinduism and Vajrayana Buddhism, and scholars disagree on who influenced whom. [printed version with endnotes], Itinrance et vie monastique. [118] According to Samuel, there are two main scholarly opinions on these terrifying goddesses which became incorporated into aiva and Buddhist Tantra. [25] The various contextual meanings of the word Tantra vary with the Indian text and are summarized in the appended table. 2007, only a small proportion of Pashtuns may descend from Greeks, but they also suggest that Greek ancestry may also have come from Greek slaves brought by Xerxes I. [55] Khatol Mohammadzai serves as Brigadier general in the military of Afghanistan, another Pashtun female became a fighter pilot in the Pakistan Air Force. From the 8th to the 14th century, Tantric traditions rose to prominence and flourished throughout India and beyond. They are believed to have been bilingual in Pashto and Urdu until the mid-19th century. As the world's oldest and largest continuously functioning international institution, it has played a prominent role in the history and development of Western civilisation. equipment costs were provided by Mike Mason and Dan Kramer. [118] Formally, skepticism as a topic occurs in the context of philosophy, particularly epistemology, although it can be applied to any topic such as politics, religion, and pseudoscience. Eva Wong, Taoism, Shambhala Publications. [258] In 1958, a meeting of Pashtun scholars and writers from both Afghanistan and Pakistan, held in Kabul, standardised the present Pashto alphabet. Moreover , ' a letter [ has come hither ] from you , so I have heard how [ you have ] written ' ' to me concerning ] my health . Thomas Henry Huxley in 1870 wrote that the "absurd denomination of 'Caucasian'" was in fact a conflation of his Xanthochroi (Nordic) and Melanochroi (Mediterranean) types. [20], Robert Brown similarly notes that "tantrism" is a construct of Western scholarship, not a concept of the religious system itself. Husserl charged Heidegger with raising the question of ontology but failing to answer it, instead switching the topic to the Dasein, the only being for whom Being is an issue. [188] These thinkers synthesized the various goddess and aiva lineages and philosophies into a comprehensive and influential religious system. The early 20th-century Indian scholar Pandurang Vaman Kane conjectured that Madhvacharya ignored Tantra because it may have been considered scandalous. I will be updating optional and GS specific newspaper articles on facebook page atleast till FC starts! James Lochtefeld (2002), The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Rosen Publishing, New York, OED "spirit 2.a. The tantric mahasiddhas developed yogic systems with subtle body and sexual elements which could lead to magical powers (siddhis), immortality, as well as spiritual liberation (moksha, nirvana). [85][86] Mahayana incantations are called dhras. 2, June 2009. The Tantric Age: A comparison of Shaiva and Buddhist Tantra. The Encyclopedia of Phenomenology (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997) features separate articles on the following seven types of phenomenology:[17], The contrast between "constitutive phenomenology" (German: konstitutive Phnomenologie; also static phenomenology (statische Phnomenologie) or descriptive phenomenology (beschreibende Phnomenologie)) and "genetic phenomenology" (genetische Phnomenologie; also phenomenology of genesis (Phnomenologie der Genesis)) is due to Husserl.[22]. R. O. Elveton, "The Phenomenology of Husserl: Selected Critical Readings" (Seattle: Noesis Press 2000) Key essays about Husserl's phenomenology. It is also called rebirth or transmigration, and is a part of the Sasra doctrine of cyclic existence. [71] The Shvetashvatara Upanishad describes breath control that became a standard part of Yoga, but Tantric practices do not appear in it. [75], This article is about the outdated race concept. Hudud ul-'alam also speaks of a king in Ninhar (Nangarhar), who had Muslim, Afghan and Hindu wives. The Taliban regime was ousted in late 2001 during the US-led War in Afghanistan and replaced with the Karzai administration. Phenomenology is not a unified movement; rather, the works of different authors share a 'family resemblance' but with many significant differences. [108][109] In the 2nd century, Lucian devoted a witty essay to the career of a charlatan, "Alexander the false prophet", trained by "one of those who advertise enchantments, miraculous incantations, charms for your love-affairs, visitations for your enemies, disclosures of buried treasure, and successions to estates". Ahmed, Akbar S. 1980. InsightsIAS Headquarters, However my caution will remains the same, understand ones own strength and weakness. [103] The 6th-century Varhamihira mentions Kapalikas in his literary works. [169] Tantric traditions also survived in certain regions, such as among the Naths of Rajasthan, in the Sri Vidya tradition of South India and in the Bengali Bauls. [91] After the short reign of the Ghilji Pashtuns in Iran, Nader Shah defeated the last independent Ghilji ruler of Kandahar, Hussain Hotak. These are neither compulsory nor universal in Tantrism. It taught that each individual is a divinity, embodying the divine couple Ka and his consort Rdh. This new Tantric Buddhism was supported by the Pala Dynasty (8th12th century) which supported these centers of learning. In contrast, the Tantrika traditions hold, states Robert Brown, that "both enlightenment and worldly success" are achievable, and that "this world need not be shunned to achieve enlightenment". [62], According to Padoux, the term "Tantrika" is based on a comment by Kulluka Bhatta on Manava Dharmasastra 2.1, who contrasted vaidika and tantrika forms of Sruti (canonical texts). In aiva Siddhnta, only ritual can do away with "innate impurities" (anavamala) that bind individual Selfs, though the ritual must be performed with an understanding of their nature and purpose as well as with devotion. [113] These ascetics would have been supported by low castes living at the cremation places. [245] Robert Nichols remarks:[246]. For example, according to the Encyclopaedia of Islam, the theory of Pashtun descent from Israelites is traced to Nimat Allah al-Harawi, who compiled a history for Khan-e-Jehan Lodhi in the reign of Mughal Emperor Jehangir in the 17th century. In Afghanistan, following recent elections, the proportion of female political representatives is one of the highest in the world. [269] Pashto may have ancient legacy of borrowing vocabulary from neighbouring languages including such as Persian and Vedic Sanskrit. Pat", "Enyclopedia Iranica, AFGHANISTAN vi. [33][34] They were historically referred to as Afghans[b] until the 1970s,[40] when the term's meaning evolved into that of a demonym for all residents of Afghanistan, including those outside of the Pashtun ethnicity. Itinrance et vie monastique. [178] There are numerous tantric texts for these different traditions with different philosophical point of views, ranging from theistic dualism to absolute monism. (2020). [7][8] They include Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, Chinese Esoteric Buddhism, Japanese Shingon Buddhism and Nepalese Newar Buddhism. In practice, it entails an unusual combination of discipline and detachment to bracket theoretical explanations and second-hand information while determining one's "nave" experience of the matter. [96] The concepts of a person's spirit and soul, often also overlap, as both are either contrasted with or given ontological priority over the body and both are believed to survive bodily death in some religions,[97] and "spirit" can also have the sense of "ghost", i.e. "[55] Hindu puja, temples and iconography all show tantric influence. By the 1950s a popular call for Pashtunistan began to be heard in Afghanistan and the new state of Pakistan. In all reality, a third definition also existssexual abuse in the name of spirituality and the sacred. 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", See, for example, the course synopsis and bibliography for, Bengt Ankarloo & Stuart Clark, Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: Biblical and Pagan Societies", University of Philadelphia Press, 2001, "Philosophical views are typically classed as skeptical when they involve advancing some degree of doubt regarding claims that are elsewhere taken for granted. Whatever the case, it seems that it was in these ritual spaces visited by both Buddhists and aivas that the practice of Kaula and Anuttarayoga Tantra developed during the eighth and ninth centuries. "[170] These references to Bani Israel agree with the commonly held view by Pashtuns that when the twelve tribes of Israel were dispersed, the tribe of Joseph, among other Hebrew tribes, settled in the Afghanistan region. [139] Herodotus also mentions a tribe of known as Aparytai ()[140] Thomas Holdich[141] has linked them with the Pashtun tribe: Afridis[142] as all these tribes have been placed in the Indus valley. [211] Because of the wide range of communities covered by the term, it is problematic to describe tantric practices definitively. Other such miracles might be: survival of an illness diagnosed as terminal, escaping a life-threatening situation or 'beating the odds'. "[40], However, ontological being and existential being are different categories, so Heidegger's conflation of these categories is, according to Husserl's view, the root of Heidegger's error. Coon further asserted that the Caucasoid race was of dual origin, consisting of early dolichocephalic (e.g. Although phenomenology seeks to be scientific, it does not attempt to study consciousness from the perspective of clinical psychology or neurology. "An account of the Kingdom of Caubul and its dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India: comprising a view of the Afghaun nation." [88][187], During the 10th century, the syncretic Nondual School of Kashmir aivism developed. Gray, "one of the most important tropes in the history of the dissemination of tantric traditions is that of lineage, the transmission of teachings along an uninterrupted lineage, from master to disciple, the so-called guruparapar. The supernatural is featured in folklore and religious contexts,[4] but can also feature as an explanation in more secular contexts, as in the cases of superstitions or belief in the paranormal. One of the greatest scientists of the 20th century is the creator of numerous inventions and theories that transformed a lot of concepts linked to space and time, with the most important discovery being the theory of relativity. [2][18], The word appears in the hymns of the Rigveda such as in 10.71, with the meaning of "warp (weaving)". Caucasoid traits were recognised as: thin nasal aperture ("nose narrow"), a small mouth, facial angle of 10090, and orthognathism, exemplified by what Blumenbach saw in most ancient Greek crania and statues. The term supernatural is often used interchangeably with paranormal or preternaturalthe latter typically limited to an adjective for describing abilities which appear to exceed what is possible within the boundaries of the laws of physics. [45][46][47] Some Avestan and Vedic deities were viewed as ethical concepts. [86] The majority of Indian Pashtuns are Urdu-speaking communities,[86] who have assimilated into the local society over the course of generations. In other words, when a reference is made to a thing's essence or idea, or when the constitution of an identical coherent thing is specified by describing what one "really" sees as being only these sides and aspects, these surfaces, it does not mean that the thing is only and exclusively what is described here: the ultimate goal of these reductions is to understand how these different aspects are constituted into the actual thing as experienced by the person experiencing it. The book gives a detailed account of two pacyati monasteries, the Kadri Mah of Mangalore where its heads enthronement is spectacularly performed every twelve years, and the Caughera Mah of Dang Valley in Nepal, the royal foundation of which gives a glimpse of the complex relationships that can exist between monasteries and kingdoms. The lifeworld (German: Lebenswelt) is the "world" each one of us lives in. ", mythologies of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, living people making journeys to the underworld, "Some Laws of Nature are Metaphysically Contingent", "On the Metaphysical Contingency of Laws of Nature", English Translations of Select Tracts, Published in India Religious Texts, "Angels in Christianity." This cycle can be broken after a soul achieves Moksha or Nirvana. According to Samuel, it seems that these sexual practices were not initially practiced by Buddhist monastics and instead developed outside of the monastic establishments among traveling siddhas. [217] Padoux explains the transgressive practices as follows: On the ritual and mental plane, transgression was an essential trait by which the nondualistic Tantric traditions set themselves apart from other traditions so much so that they used the term "nondualistic practice" (advaitacara) to refer to the Kaula transgressive practices as a rejection of the duality (dvaita) of pure and impure in brahmanical society. [56], The term tantrism is a 19th-century European invention not present in any Asian language; [21] compare "Sufism", of similar Orientalist origin. DNA Ancestry Testing, Race, and the New Eugenics Movement", "Beyond the Cephalic Index: Negotiating Politics to Produce UNESCO's Scientific Statements on Race", "Racial variety of Mankind, section 5.5.3", School Bakai - Ethnogenesis the North Caucasus indigenous population, "Collective Degradation: Slavery and the Construction of Race. Many of the Bollywood film stars in India have Pashtun ancestry; some of the most notable ones are Aamir Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Salman Khan, Feroz Khan, Madhubala, Kader Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Soha Ali Khan, Sara Ali Khan, and Zarine Khan. Sometimes depicted as the "science of experience," the phenomenological method is rooted in intentionality, i.e. [83][84], In Catholic theology, the supernatural order is, according to New Advent, defined as "the ensemble of effects exceeding the powers of the created universe and gratuitously produced by God for the purpose of raising the rational creature above its native sphere to a God-like life and destiny. Bernard, G. (1999). [20] The coexistence of natural and supernatural explanations in individuals may be the outcomes two distinct cognitive domains: one concerned with the physical-mechanical relations and another with social relations. [248][249] Pashto morphology in relation to verbs is complex compared to other Iranian languages. [45], Tantric traditions have been studied mostly from textual and historical perspectives. However, rather than to Yoga, the history and expansion of the Nth sect are linked to its rich legendary corpus. [82] In these schools, karma in the present affects one's future in the current life, as well as the nature and quality of future lives one's sasra. [48][49][50] Deities have also been envisioned as a form of existence (Sasra) after rebirth, for human beings who gain merit through an ethical life, where they become guardian deities and live blissfully in heaven, but are also subject to death when their merit runs out. [171] This oral tradition is widespread among the Pashtun tribes. Transcendence is maintained in existential phenomenology to the extent that the method of phenomenology must take a presuppositionless starting point transcending claims about the world arising from, for example, natural or scientific attitudes or theories of the ontological nature of the world. 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