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Making a Mantra: Tantric Ritual and Renunciation on the Jain Path to Liberation , by Ellen Gough

Making a Mantra: Tantric Ritual and Renunciation on the Jain Path to Liberation , by Ellen Gough Ellen Gough, Making a Mantra: Tantric Ritual and Renunciation on the Jain Path to Liberation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. ISBN: 978-0-226-76690-4 (cloth) / 978-0-226-76706-2 (paper) / 978-0-226-76723-9 (e-book). $ 95,00 (cloth) / $ 30,00 (paper) / $ 29.99 (pdf).One cannot deny that Jain ascetics have a sense of humour. At the start of her introduction to the ṛddhimaṅgala, the Prakrit mantra that forms the subject of this timely and well-conceived book, Ellen Gough reports: ‘When I asked one monk why he could not explain to me the contents of the mantra, he replied: “Why can’t just anyone go into the Pentagon?” ’ (p. 6). This little anecdote is illustrative of two features that characterize the book as a whole: (1) while being largely concerned with premodern texts, Gough also brings in an anthropological perspective based on several seasons of ethnographic fieldwork (in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra), which is revealing and often lacking in works of this kind; (2) the debunking of stereotypes of Jainism, in this case that of the Jain monk aloof from the ways of the world, as well as that of Jain mantraśāstra being something external to the ‘authentic’ ascetic values of Jainism. It is the latter http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Indo-Iranian Journal Brill

Making a Mantra: Tantric Ritual and Renunciation on the Jain Path to Liberation , by Ellen Gough

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Indo-Iranian Journal , Volume 65 (2): 7 – Jun 2, 2022
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Ellen Gough, Making a Mantra: Tantric Ritual and Renunciation on the Jain Path to Liberation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. ISBN: 978-0-226-76690-4 (cloth) / 978-0-226-76706-2 (paper) / 978-0-226-76723-9 (e-book). $ 95,00 (cloth) / $ 30,00 (paper) / $ 29.99 (pdf).One cannot deny that Jain ascetics have a sense of humour. At the start of her introduction to the ṛddhimaṅgala, the Prakrit mantra that forms the subject of this timely and well-conceived book, Ellen Gough reports: ‘When I asked one monk why he could not explain to me the contents of the mantra, he replied: “Why can’t just anyone go into the Pentagon?” ’ (p. 6). This little anecdote is illustrative of two features that characterize the book as a whole: (1) while being largely concerned with premodern texts, Gough also brings in an anthropological perspective based on several seasons of ethnographic fieldwork (in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra), which is revealing and often lacking in works of this kind; (2) the debunking of stereotypes of Jainism, in this case that of the Jain monk aloof from the ways of the world, as well as that of Jain mantraśāstra being something external to the ‘authentic’ ascetic values of Jainism. It is the latter

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