The Mātṛkā Dance: Conceptualizing the Dancing Body of the Goddess

IF 0.5 3区哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY

Sophia Pub Date : 2024-01-20 DOI:10.1007/s11841-023-00988-7

Ana Laura Funes Maderey

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Abstract

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. Different strategies have been proposed in the history of philosophy in India. This paper analyzes the image of the dancing Goddess as it appears in the Devī Māhātmya and in the Tantric iconography of the Goddess Kālī. An argument is developed to show that Śākta philosophy resolves this tension through a radical non-dualist understanding of the role that a mental image (vikalpa) plays in accessing supreme reality.

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玛特卡舞蹈：将女神的舞姿概念化

印度教传统中舞蹈的至高女神形象的概念化是一项哲学挑战，因为它要求在女神不断变化为多种形态的本质与纯粹、绝对、永不变化、无形的存在领域之间进行连贯的理性调和。印度哲学史上曾提出过不同的策略。本文分析了出现在 Devī Māhātmya 和 Kālī 女神的密宗图像中的舞蹈女神形象。本文提出了一个论点，说明圣十字哲学通过对心象（vikalpa）在通达最高现实中所起作用的激进的非二元论理解，解决了这一矛盾。

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