The Tantric Tradition

Bharati, Agehananda

Religion & Spirituality

Samuel Weiser, Inc.

THE TANTRIC TRADITION

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Tantric Tradition

Greenwood Pub Group

The tantric tradition plays a major role in Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism, yet its teachings and philosophy are still little understood and often distorted in the West. The powerful erotic and sensual symbolism of the literature and the apparently amoral tendencies of the teachings, and the care with which their inner meaning has been guarded have made objective study of them difficult. This classic text offers an in-depth study of the literature and philosophy of the tantric tradition, one of the central themes of Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism. The author analyzes from within the literary, liguistic, ideological, philosophical and ritualistic patterns of tantrism illustrating them with passages from the Indian and Tibetan texts. Bharati gives emphasis to mantra, intitiation, male-female polarity, symbolism and to the history and development of tantrism.

Red Wheel/Weiser

Edges slightly tattered on price-clipped, sun-faded dustjacket. Publisher is Nelson Hall.

Asians in East Africa: Jayhind and Uhuru

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Burnham Inc Pub.

The light at the center : context and pretext of modern mysticism Agehananda Bharati

The Light at the Center

Ross-Erikson

The Light at the Center, an investigation of mysticism in the tradition of Butler, Underhill and Zaehner, ventures into a totally new sphere because the author combines two allegedly contradictory qualifications - he is a trained mystic, an initiate into a Hindu monastic order, and also an outstanding social scientist. So far no holy man has been able to analyze the society in which he operates, and no social scientist has been a professional mystic. Bharati first defines mysticism, then proceeds to discuss oriental religious movements in America. He claims that the majority of gurus whose actions and words have diffused into the West since the turn of the century are frauds, but that the mystical experience they refer to is often genuine, although inaccessible to empirical measurement. He then appeals for a rational, disciplined approach to mysticism that would embrace all those willing to approach the tradition by the sweat of their brows, and to do away with media-inspired notions of the initiate and the aspirant.

The Light at the Center: Context and Pretext of Modern Mysticism

Ross-Erikson Publishers Inc.,U.S., Santa Barbara, CA, 1980. Paperback

The Ochre Robe: An Autobiography

Tantric Traditions

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