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... that the "entire speculative appara- sonant with brahmanical ontological and ritual tus" in the tantra is taken over from nontantra. speculations. Retention of semen ("semen" Tantra is distinguished from nontantra here as the sandhdbhasd term for sambodhi) through its "systematic [reviewer's italics] em- accords...

... Classique, II, 3 Further, Bharati act," an offering forth, and as such it is con- maintains that the "entire speculative appara- sonant with brahmanical ontological and ritual tus" in the tantra is taken over from nontantra. speculations. Retention of semen ("semen" Tantra is distinguished from nontantra...

... focused on the bio-moral nature of semen, and on how 2 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES semen is taken to embody truth. Because semen is inherently male, he argues, the present-day discourse on nationalism has become increasingly centered on males as the source of truth. Celibacy thus has become the agency...

... of the women, they also enabled the men to collect in dishes the large quantities of semen needed for use in various rituals to promote health, strength, growth, and general fertility. Indeed, so important were the properties of semen thought to be that it was rubbed on weapons and implements and added...

... of the women, they also enabled the men to collect in dishes the large quantities of semen needed for use in various rituals to promote health, strength, growth, and general fertility. Indeed, so important were the properties of semen thought to be that it was rubbed on weapons and implements and added...

... terminology often predominate. However, in many cases these terms are "revalorized," given a tantric interpretation, and made part of the Baul secret vocabulary. Karim informs us that the Quranic term bismillah (in the name of Allah) is interpreted by the Bauls to mean bis mi allah (Allah is in semen...

... interpretation, and made part of the Baul secret vocabulary. Karim informs us that the Quranic term bismillah (in the name of Allah) is interpreted by the Bauls to mean bis mi allah (Allah is in semen) (presumably an approximation of an East Bengali's pronounciation of the Urdu phrase bij me allah). The Arabic...

... and deference to gurus, his worship of snakes and the monkey-god Hanuman, is Alter's thesis that the wrestler's body is a symbol of controlled sexuality; he consumes vast quantities of almonds and milk, for instance, to build up his semen and virility (most wrestlers are bachelors, aged 15 to 35), but his...

... this and no diacritical marks whatever, nor any attempt at a different psychoanalytic or cultural analysis. Here and there, Spratt makes some excellent points, e.g. that a psychoanalytic explanation neither confirms nor refutes the ideological or cognitive content of thought and value systems (w); the all-Indian semen...

... ingredients is explained as a sandhyabhasa term for faeces; kasturika , musk, is urine; sihlaka , frankincense, is blood; karpura , camphor, is semen. And then on p. 101: “There we eat meat and drink wine in great quantity … we take the fourfold preparation and musk and frankincense and camphor...

... attempt at a different psychoanalytic or cultural analysis. Here and there, Spratt makes some excellent points, e.g. that a psychoanalytic explanation neither confirms nor refutes the ideological or cognitive content of thought and value systems (w); the all-Indian semen cathexis and the fear of loss...

... other Melanesians, "use sexual relationships and fluids as objects and commodities to re-create social order in successive generations" (p. 201). Semen is valued as the basis of fertility and growth, and is integral in ideas about descent and marriage. Herdt is concerned with the social ideology...

... of what pertains to brightness" (Hume (coming And in verse 28, the coital imagery reads arkyasya). And neither "The water, inin rasdbhyantarah samnipatya ("falling on her, deed, was brightness" nor "Water shone" correfull of semen") is missed in transposing the spond to dpo vdarkah (1.2.2), where...

... lay donors. Next, Powers provides background for Buddhist ideas about somatic virtue and sexuality by delving into analyses of the body in Buddhist and Ayurvedic texts. Particularly germane are Indic theories about the beneficial effects of semen retention through celibacy, and about embryology...

... that turnip and then became pregnant. Several years later the parents find each other and marry. Li suggests the story “illustrate[s] the power of both semen and karma” (p. 87) and ponders the possible symbolism of the turnip. Other tales lead Li to reflect on the phallic and vaginal symbolism of snakes...

... should be considered secondary units, or more appropriately, units of standing.20 A gotra is usually glossed in the anthropological literature as a clan. It resembles a clan in that members are said to share descent and a common natural substance, semen (s'ukra), inherited from the gotra founder. Through...

... disparity has to do with the inherent nebulousness of this topic for most Sinhalese, and with its further complication by the intrusion of Western ideas. Indeed, many of my abstruse and indelicate questions about blood, semen, intercourse, and menstruation were returned with an equally abstruse shrug...

... are waged. At the same time, bodies can resist geopolitical territorialization because of bodily flows (breast milk, semen) that transgress boundaries and because of the materiality of the body (health, disease, reproductive functions, etc.) that deters full conscription into a territorialist design. I see...

... in human beings as semen and menses. It is adhar (uncatchable) because its normal flow is downward and outward, leading to physical and psychical degeneration, to death and rebirth. In the sexual sddhond, performed when the woman is menstruating, the flow is reversed, upward and inward, the adhar mdnus...