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Shaktism
The tradition of the Goddess; Tantra
c.500 CE – present · Dharmic / Indian · Living · Bengal, Assam, Kerala, Nepal, Tamil Nadu
V. THE MEDIEVAL WORLD — c.500 – 1500 CE
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### Its timeline
- c.2500 BCE Female figurines in the Indus Valley; the connection is suggestive and unproven.
- c.6th c. CE Devi Mahatmya composed; the Goddess is given full theological status.
- c.7th–12th c. CE Tantric traditions flourish and cross into Buddhism and Jainism.
- c.1772–1833 CE Ramprasad Sen and Bengali Shakta devotional poetry.
- 1836–1886 CE Ramakrishna, priest of the Kali temple at Dakshineswar, whose visions and teaching that all religions lead to the same goal shape modern Hinduism through his disciple Vivekananda.
- 1829, 1856 CE Sati banned; widow remarriage legalised — reforms aimed at practices defended by some as religious.
- 1975–present Western neo-tantra emerges, focused almost entirely on sexuality and largely detached from the Sanskrit tradition it claims.
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