1st Edition

The Rādhā Tantra A critical edition and annotated translation

By Mans Broo Copyright 2017
350 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

350 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

350 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Rādhā Tantra is an anonymous 17th century tantric text from Bengal. The text offers a lively picture of the meeting of different religious traditions in 17 th century Bengal, since it presents a Śākta version of the famous Vaiṣṇava story of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa. This book presents a critically edited text of the Rādhā Tantra, based on manuscripts in India, Nepal and Bangladesh, as... Read more

 1. Introduction

2. Conventions in the critical text and the translation

3. Critical Edition of the Rādhā Tantra

4. Annotated Translation of the Rādhā Tantra

 

Biography

Måns Broo is Senior Lecturer of Comparative Religion, Åbo Akademi University, Finland.

Winner 'The Donner Research Prize', 2017