RT Article
T1 A Cognitive Approach to Tantric Language
JF Religions
VO 7
IS 12
SP 1
OP 19
A1 Timalsina, Sthaneshwar 1965-
LA English
PB MDPI
YR 2016
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1586126490
AB By applying the contemporary theories of schema, metonymy, metaphor, and conceptual blending, I argue in this paper that salient cognitive categories facilitate a deeper analysis of Tantric language. Tantras use a wide range of symbolic language expressed in terms of mantric speech and visual ma??alas, and Tantric texts relate the process of deciphering meaning with the surge of mystical experience. In this essay, I will focus on some distinctive varieties of Tantric language with a conviction that select cognitive tools facilitate coherent reading of these expressions. Mystical language broadly utilizes images and metaphors. Deciphering Tantric language should therefore also provide a framework for reading other varieties of mystical expressions across cultures.
K1 Tantra
K1 Conceptual Blending
K1 Image
K1 Mantra
K1 ma??ala
K1 Metaphor
K1 metonymy
K1 Schema
DO 10.3390/rel7120139