elisa freschiThe semantic development of tantra and prasaṅga – elisa freschi https://elisafreschi.com These pages are a sort of virtual desktop of Elisa Freschi. You can find here my cv and some random thoughts on Sanskrit (and) Philosophy. All criticism welcome! Contributions are also welcome! Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:06:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 The semantic development of tantra and prasaṅga https://elisafreschi.com/2017/10/05/the-semantic-development-of-tantra-and-prasa%e1%b9%85ga/ https://elisafreschi.com/2017/10/05/the-semantic-development-of-tantra-and-prasa%e1%b9%85ga/#respond Thu, 05 Oct 2017 06:25:11 +0000 elisa freschi http://elisafreschi.com/?p=2604 A review of Freschi Pontillo 2013

A review of our 2013 book on the evolution of the semantics of tantra and prasaṅga by Émilie Aussant can be read on the Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics (link here).

Many thanks are due to Dr. Aussant for her ability to explain in a few sentences the broad context (the Sanskrit śāstra tradition and its ability to encode as many aspects of life as possible), the narrow one (metarules for the interpretation of sūtras) and the specific topic of tantra and prasaṅga.

You can read more on tantra and prasaṅga in my previous blog, here and here. A short version of the book is available on Academia.edu, here.

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