I before He : the Tirumantiram's path to body-centric spiritual liberation

• Main Author: Venkat, Pranav
• Other Authors: Jessica Bridgette Hinchy
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2022
• Subjects: Humanities::History::Asia::Southeastern Asia
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/155977
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis argues that the Tirumantiram proposes a clear pathway beginning from body-centred practices that focus on realising the divine within the self, before progressing to the more abstract and harder to attain forms of spiritual realisation more commonly associated with Vedāntic texts. The te...