Talk:Aghori

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You have new messages (last change).
Wikiproject Saivism This article is within the scope of WikiProject Saivism, an attempt to promote better coordination, content distribution, and cross-referencing between pages dealing with Saivism. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page.
Wikiproject_Hinduism This article is within the scope of WikiProject Hinduism, an attempt to promote better coordination, content distribution, and cross-referencing between pages dealing with Hinduism. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page.
Start This article has been rated as start-Class on the quality scale.

Contents

[edit] Plagiarism

The external links include this. The wiki article looks to be this page exactly. I'm not sure if the External Links page is merely a duplication of the wikipedia page, and if it is, it should be removed from the article. If this wiki article came from the external page, quotations and citations should be added for almost every sentence in the article.

[edit] Major Overhaul

I am going to give this page a major overhaul. Sedusa66 06:05, 9 January 2007 (UTC)Sedusa66

Sounds good! Would you be able to use the {{inuse}} template during your edits to avoid any eventual edit conflicts? Thanks Sfacets 08:12, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

thanks! I will do so. Sedusa66 17:40, 9 January 2007 (UTC)Sedusa66

[edit] Aghor Sect

there was an article written from the perspective of the followers of Bhagwan Ramji http://www.aghor.org/ , which is not in line with what most people think of as Aghora but nonetheless is a valid and distinct lineage. I plan on revamping this article, but someone seems to have either erased the other entry or redirected here; they deserve to be spoken for. Sedusa66 04:35, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

I just put the original contents of that article under aghor for posterity, hopefully someone will clean it up. if I have time I will do my best to do that, even tho I am not a member of that sect. Sedusa66 05:12, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] General

this article & aghoris need some merging...Pratheepps

I merged the two articles. The disambiguation page "aghora" is still rather confusing. I think this article is in desperate need of attention from an expert. At the very least, it needs a great deal of reorganization. Fuzzform 19:49, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Someone should write about the importance of Smashana Tara, i.e. Kali in the form of the cremation ground goddess, and her central place in the Aghora religion.

Also the historical development from the Kapalikas to the Aghori might be of interest.


Smashan Tara is not central to every Aghori's religion, they are a Shaiva sect; in fact Kali is a much more common Cremation Ground Goddess than Tara; the impression that it is otherwise is due to the popularity of Svoboda's books, which while I like very much, are not the end all and be all of Aghora. Sedusa66 04:40, 9 January 2007 (UTC)Sedusa66 (UTC

[edit] In the news

It appears a couple of Aghori priests have been arrested [1] as I mention there a couple of documentaries have been made about them. The Indian one, "Feeding on the Dead" is only 10 minutes long but I'm sure the one I've seen on British TV is longer. (Emperor 19:33, 11 April 2006 (UTC))

Someone might include a 'Trivia' section mentioning the episode of MTV's "Wildboys" that delt almost entirely with the Aghoris. If nothing else that particular episode is a good source of information (even as childish and scatological as the series is).

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../a/g/h/Talk%7EAghori_f42f.html"