Lubomír Ondračka

Datos Biográficos

ID4044719
NOMBRELubomír Ondračka
NOMBRESLubomír
APELLIDOOndračka
FIRMAONDRAČKA L
AFILIACIONESCharles University
ORCID0000-0001-7706-3059
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS4
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR4
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2019
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • The Search for the Jugi Caste in Pre-Colonial Bengal

    Lubomír OndračkaCHAPTERPower of the Nath Yogis2025

    Colonial records reveal that the Jugis formed a numerous endogamous caste in the eastern parts of undivided Bengal. Even today, this Bengali-speaking community, now known as the Nāths, is present in southern Assam, Tripura, and northern Bangladesh. Scholars believe that the Jugi caste has been present in Bengal for many centuries, probably since the Pāla dynasty. However, textual sources (both in Sanskrit and Bengali) produced in medieval Bengal …

  • Transforming the Body by Mastering the Elements, Some Tantric Sources

    Lubomír OndračkaCHAPTEROxford Handbook of Tantric Studies2024

    The elements (mahābhūtas), the building blocks of the material world according to most Indian doctrinal systems, are used in various ways in tantric rituals. The most common use is in the ritual of purification of the elements (bhūtaśuddhi), which is a preparatory act before commencing tantric worship. Another technique is the mastery of the elements (bhūtajaya), in which the practitioner gains control over a given element by holding the breath o…

  • Vernacular Tantra? An Analysis of the Bengali Text The Garland of Bones

    Lubomír OndračkaARTICLEReligions of South Asia2021Referencias: 3

    The paper introduces the Middle Bengali text The Garland of Bones (Haramala) into Western scholarship, and poses the question of what milieu it was produced and transmitted in. The main subject matter of this work is Tantric yoga, particularly the concept of the body. Content analysis reveals that it draws from different known sources (East Indian Kaula Sanskrit Tantras and vernacular works), but also contains a substantial amount of material tha…

  • Hana Preinhaelterová (12 September 1938 – 24 June 2018)

    Open AccessLubomír OndračkaARTICLEAnnals of the Náprstek Museum2019

    Hana Preinhaelterová (née Pletánková) was born in České Budějovice, the regional capital of South Bohemia.After completing a business secondary school in Plzeň in 1958, she moved to Prague to attend university.There she studied two subjects at the Faculty of Philology of Charles University: Bengali and English.Whereas she chose English for practical reasons, from the outset her most genuine interest lay in India and Indian culture.She was lucky t…