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13 Sep
2024
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Yoga and Tantra
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Padma Kaimal
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Image: Sculpture of Yogini Goddess dancing on two wheels and playing a drum, at the Yogini Temple in Hirapur, Odisha, India, ca. 900 CE, black basalt stone (Photo: author, 2006)
Dance postures are among the most dynamic poses struck by the sculptures that once filled temples dedicated to the worship of yoginis, the powerful goddesses who straddle the boundaries between nurture and destruction. This lecture proposes that the meaning of their dances has to do with the marking and counting of t ime, the rhythm of the dance but also the rhythm of the cosmos which yoginis’ openroofed temples invited visitors to track.
Free Online Public Lecture on ZOOM
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September 13, 2024
Timing: 6:30 - 8:00 pm IST
Registrations Closed
Padma Kaimal
Dr. Padma Kaimal is the Michael J. Batza Chair in Art History at Colgate University. Her research questions common assumptions about ancient art from the Tamil region. Her new book, Opening Kailasanatha: The Temple in Kanchipuram Revealed in Time and Space, reconstructs the aspirations, profound wisdom, Tantric secrets, and distinctive world view of ancient kings and queens of South India through the monument’s material forms. Her previous book, Scattered Goddesses: Travels with the Yoginis (2012) disrupts categories of East and West, scattering and collecting, as it traces the worship, ruination, dispersal, and re-enshrinement of nineteen sculptures from a 10th-century goddess temple.