The Mātṛkā Dance: Conceptualizing the Dancing Body of the Goddess.
Conceptualizing the image of a dancing Supreme Goddess in the Hindu tradition presents a philosophical challenge because it demands a coherent rational reconciliation between her nature as continuously changing into multiple forms and the realm of pure, absolute, never-changing, formless being. Diff...
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Sep2024
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