TANTRARAJA TANTRA

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ABOUT THE BOOK : The Tantraraja as its name implies, is an important work of its class which is, in one of its parts, here published for the first time with a commentary called Manorama by Subhaganandanatha of (as Bhaskararaya in his commentary on the Nityashodashikarnava says) the Kashmir school. The book touches upon all the principal precepts of Tantra, espicially the esotric practices. An account of the Sakta Pithas has also been given in the background of the ethnological divisions of India. New light has been thrown on the origin of bija, mantra and Gayatri occurring in Tantric works. The study may be regarded as a new one, since scientific discussion of Tantrism has not yet progressed so far satisfactorily.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR : Sir John George Woodroffe (15 December 1865 – 16 January 1936), also known by his pseudonym Arthur Avalon, was a British Orientalist whose extensive and complex published works on the Tantras, and other Hindu traditions, stimulated a wide-ranging interest in Hindu philosophy and yoga. His choice of the name Arthur Avalon was due his initiation into the western equivalent of eastern tantra, the secretive Celtic religion which worships in secret within many British Churches, which has Arthur, with the nine sisters of Avalon in place of the ten incarnations of Vishnu, the nine incarnations of Durga, or the ten Mahavidyas as within other tantric systems.