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40 Cards in this Set
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Aghori
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modern extreme tantric tradition, Aghoris inhabit graveyards and carry skulls
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arati
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liturgical homage and offering to a god in a temple, celebrated several times a day in large temples
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bairagi
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domesticated modern version of shramana, devoted to the god Vishnu
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Bhairava
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Angry form Shiva was required to take as penance for killing Brahma
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Bhakti
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devotion to god, usually to an incarnation of Vishnu to Shiva, or to a goddess
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cakra
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"wheel", and series of internal circles or lotuses where reside letters and gods/goddesses
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diksha
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initiation into the tantric tradition, whereby one becomes assured of salvation
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dravida style
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South Indian temple, barrel vaulted, ascends in progressively smaller stages
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Durga
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wild goddess of the woods who kills the buffalo demon, sometimes wife of Shiva
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Garbhagriha
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"wonb chamber" the place of the god(dess) inside a mandir
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Ganesh
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elephant-headed god, son of Shiva, destroyer of obstacles at beginning of activity
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Hanuman
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Money deity, helped of Rama and the ideal devotee in the Ramcharitmanas
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Hathayoga
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Yogic systems emphasizing the physical postures (asana) and breath control (pranayama)
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KAli
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emanation of Durga, Kali is the unclean eater of men, and the tantric goddesses par excellence
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Kaliyuga
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fourth eon, time of degeneracy, for which the puranas and tantras were preached
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Kundalini
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"she who is coiled", shakti coiled at the base of subtle body and released in tantric yoga
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Lakshmi
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the wife of Vishnu, the goddess of wealth and family benefit; she is worshiped in the fall
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linga
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phallus - the linga is the sign of Shiva and the emblem of both his fertility and potency
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Murugan
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South Indian deity, Sanskritized as identical to Kartikeya, one of two sons of Shiva
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naga
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snake spirit, symbol of fertility and danger, symbol of the uncoiling of Kundalini
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nagara style
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the North Indian Style of temple architecture, beehive like, with a spire
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Nandi
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the bull vehicle of Shiva, often seen outside of Shiva mandirs
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nirgunabhakti
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devotion to God without qualities, as brahman or impersonal absolute
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Parvati
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wife of Shiva, the daugther of the mountain god Himalaya
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pitha
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sites dedicated to local goddesses, where parts of Sati fell in the myth of her death
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puja
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the form of religious offering to the gods that both supplemented and displaced sacrifice (yajna)
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Ramanuja
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12th century theologian and founder of Vasisthadvaita, with Brahman as personal absolute
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Ramcharitmanas
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16th century devotional Ramayana retold in Hindi by Tulsidas
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sadhu
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less domesticated modern Indian shramana, often wild and devoted to Shiva
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Sagunabhakti
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devotion to god with qualities, i.e, in human form
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Sati
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dismembered first wife of Shiva; also the burning of a wife on the pyre of her deceased husband
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Satygraha
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Gandhi's idea of non-violent non-cooperation taken from Jainism
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Shakti
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the designation of goddesses as the "power" of the god with whom they are paired
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Shankara
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8th century founded of Advaita Vedanta and the orthoprax "ten names" orders of samnyasins
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Shiva
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the erotic ascetic, the indigenous yogin god, the destroyer of the world
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Tantras
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literature of antinomian practices, that violate the Varnashrama-dharma
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Tirtha
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a "crossing" both literal and theological, where the sacred and wordly touch
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trimurti
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the modern Hindu trinity of Brahma (creator), Vishnu (preserver) and Shiva (destroyer)
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yoni
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Vaginal opening, representative of Shakti in the pairing with the linga
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Garuda
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mythic divine bird who is the vehicle of the god Vishnu, seen outside of Vishnu temples
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