John Woodroffe
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Sir John George Woodroffe, also known by his pseudonym Arthur Avalon, was a British judge, art connoisseur and Orientalist whose extensive and complex published works on the Tantras, and other Hindu t
In 1928. Portrait by James Lafayette
Jogapradipika 22 Bhadragorakhasana
Tantra
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Tantra, is an esoteric yogic tradition. It was developed in the Indian subcontinent, beginning in the middle of the 1st millennium CE; initially within Shaivism and Shaktism practices, and subsequentl
John Woodroffe
…in tantric and yoga studies. Alongside his judicial duties he privately studied Sanskrit and Hindu philosophy and was especially interested in Hindu Tantra. According to author Kathleen Taylor's 2001 book, Sir John Woodroffe, Tantra and Bengal, he relied very heavily for his work on a group of mentors…
A Buddhist dhāraṇī (incantation), the Nilaṇṭhanāmahṛdaya dhāraṇī, in Siddham Script with Chinese transliteration
Kushan sculpture of a yakṣiṇī (2nd century), Mathura region
A modern aghori with a skull-cup (Kapala). Their predecessors, the medieval Kapalikas ("Skull-men") were influential figures in the development of transgressive or "left hand" Shaiva tantra.
Dancing Bhairava in the Indian Museum, Kolkata