1st Edition
Sir John Woodroffe, Tantra and Bengal 'An Indian Soul in a European Body?'
By Kathleen Taylor
Copyright 2001
340 Pages
by
Routledge
340 Pages
by
Routledge
332 Pages
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Routledge
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Working with Bengali mentors, especially his close friend A. B. Ghose, Sir John Woodroffe became the pseudonymous orientalist Arthur Avalon, famous for his tantric studies at the beginning of the twentieth century. Best known for The Serpent Power , the book which introduced 'Kundalini Yoga' to the western world, Avalon turned the image of Tantra around, from that of a despised magical and... Read more
List of Illustrations, Preface, Acknowledgements, Abbreviations, INTRODUCTION, PART 1 SIR JOHN WOODROFFE 1865-1936 A biographical study, PART 2 ARTHUR AVALON The Creation of a Legendary Orientalist, Appendices, Notes, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Kathleen Taylor
'Excellent, painstaking biography.' - Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
'Kathleen Taylor has not only produced a biography worth waiting for but also, as the title suggests, shed light on some wider issues regarding the study and practice of Tantra in Bengal in the early decades of the twentieth century.' - Contemporary South Asia
