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Tantrism “Seen from the East’’

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The chapter raises the question as to whether the socio-religious current we now call “Tantrism” may represent a wider Monsoon Asian areal phenomenon, with roots in a past that predates the common era. Being directly inspired by, and engaging with, the work of Robert Dentan, this chapter evaluates his theory of a common religious base in South and Southeast Asia. It focuses on the hypostases of the Vedic god Rudra-Śiva and the related Śaiva and Śākta Tantric traditions that arose in South Asia in the mediaeval (Post-Gupta) period, and adds evidence from premodern and modern South Asian, Javano-Balinese, and Malay contexts. The presence of similar religious tropes and a shared vocabulary suggest long-standing historical connections between South and Southeast Asian societies, which cannot always be explained in terms of influences of the former over the latter but are rather suggestive of a complex process of exchange, and perhaps of a common ancestry.
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halshs-03911567, version 1 (23-12-2022)

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Andrea Acri. Tantrism “Seen from the East’’. Spirits and Ships: Cultural Transfers in Early Monsoon Asia, ISEAS Publishing, pp.71-144, 2017, 9789814762755. ⟨10.1355/9789814762779-005⟩. ⟨halshs-03911567⟩
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