Is India Civilized? Essays On Indian Culture (1922)

History

Woodroffe, Sir John

Asia

Kessinger Publishing

Introduction to the Tantra Śāstra by Sir John George Woodroffe\nAn Introduction to Tanthra Shastra, by Sir. John Woodroffe (1865–1936). This book is intended as a guide for beginners of practical Tantra, and those who are interested in Tantric field. He was a master in Tantra and a Tantric teacher also. Sir. John Woodroffes works on tantra like Serpent power, Shakthi, shaktha, Garland of letters are also popular classics on Hinduism that have shaped the common perception of Hinduism in the West.

Introduction to Tantra Sastra: A Key to the Mystic World

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Sir John Woodrooffe was a British Orientalist, who often wrote under the pen name Arthur Avalon. He translated many works from Sanskrit concerning the Hindu Tantra. Shakti and Shakta is a large series of essays on the tantra.

Shakti and Shakta

Religion & Spirituality

Hinduism

These texts describe the esoteric teachings of Tantra, a belief system which originated in India, practiced by a number of Hindus and Buddhists. Tantra has become a synonym in the West for unbridled sexuality; however, sexuality is only one faucet of theis elaborate spiritual practice.

Mahanirvana Tantra

Self-Help

NuVision Publications, LLC

Agama, which governs according to its followers the Kali-yuga, is itself divided into several schools or communities of worshippers. One of these divisions is the Shakta. It is with Shakta doctrine and worship, one of the forms of Brahmanism, which is again a form of the general Bharata Dharma, that this book deals.  The Shakta is so called because he is a worshipper of Shakti (Power), that is, God in Mother-form as the Supreme Power which creates, sustains and withdraws the universe. His rule of life is Shaktadharma, his doctrine of Shakti is Shaktivada or Shakta Darshana. God is worshipped as the Great Mother because, in this aspect, God is active, and produces, nourishes, and maintains all. Theological Godhead is no more female than male or neuter. God is Mother to the Sadhaka who worships Her Lotus Feet, the dust on which are millions of universes. The Power, or active aspect of the immanent God, is thus called Shakti.

Shakti and Shâkta

Religious Studies

Ancient text refer to Advait Vedanta, examined by prominent Sanskrit scholar Arthur Avalon.

The Garland of Letters: Studies in the Mantra-Śastra

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Classic Wisdom Reprint

This work is a description and explanation in fuller detail of the Serpent Power (Kundali Shakti), and the Yoga effected through it, a subject occupying a pre-eminent place in the T a n t r a Shastra. It consists of a translation of two Sanskrit works published some years ago in t h e second volume of my series of Tantrik Texts, but hitherto untranslated. The first, entitled " S h a t c h a k r a n i r u p a n a " ("Description of and Investigation into t h e Six Bodily Centres"), has as its author the celebrated Tantrik P u r n a - nanda Svami, a short note on whose life is given later. It forms t h e sixth chapter of his extensive and unpublished work on Tantrik Ritual entitled " S h r i t a t t v a c h i n t a m a n i " .

The Sepent Power: Being The SHAT-CHAKRA-NIRUPANA and PADUKA-PANCHAKA

THE present work deals with its subject only in a very general and, as far as the matter permits, popular way. I refer those who wish to pursue it further to the other works on Tantra sastra which are published under the name Arthur Avalon to denote that they have been written with the direct co-operation of others and in particular with the assistance of one of my friends who will not permit me to mention his name. I do not desire sole credit for what is as much their work as mine. I, in particular, refer my reader to the series of Articles on the Mantra sastra which I wrote . In this last there is given, for the first time, the rationale of Yoga through the Kundalin akti, the outlines of which are indicated in Chapter XVI of this volume.

Shakti and Shakta: Essays and Addresses on the Sakta Tantrasastra

Agama, which governs according to its followers the Kali-yuga, is itself divided into several schools or communities of worshippers. One of these divisions is the Shakta. It is with Shakta doctrine and worship, one of the forms of Brahmanism, which is again a form of the general Bharata Dharma, that this book deals. The Shakta is so called because he is a worshipper of Shakti (Power), that is, God in Mother-form as the Supreme Power which creates, sustains and withdraws the universe. His rule of life is Shaktadharma, his doctrine of Shakti is Shaktivada or Shakta Darshana. God is worshipped as the Great Mother because, in this aspect, God is active, and produces, nourishes, and maintains all. Theological Godhead is no more female than male or neuter. God is Mother to the Sadhaka who worships Her Lotus Feet, the dust on which are millions of universes. The Power, or active aspect of the immanent God, is thus called Shakti.

Sakti and Sakta: Essays on Addresses on The SAKTA TANTRASASTRA

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