{"product_id":"the-tantric-tradition-9780877282532","title":"The Tantric Tradition","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book breaks fresh ground; it is the first modern and comprehensive study of the complex field of Hindu and Buddhist esoterism. The highly delicate position of the Tantrics  their literature and their teachings  and particularly their left-handed practices have caused Indian and Western writers to give them a wide berth. The powerful erotic and sensual symbolism  the apparently amoral tendencies of the doctrines and the care with which their proper meaning has been guarded has made their objective study extremely difficult. The author analyses critically and sympathetically  the literary  linguistic  ideological  and anthropological aspects of Tantrism  documenting them with freshly translated passages from Indian and Tibetan texts. He gives special emphasis to mantra  initiation  the male-female polarity symbolism with its ritualistic corollaries  the philosophical potential  and to the history and development of Tantrism in India and Tibet. The book is essential reading for all interested in the East and its culture in depth  as well as for the more general student of cultural anthropology. Agehananda Bharati is a member of the anthropological faculty at Syracuse University  New York  an ordained member of the Dasanami Order of Hindu monks  and an Austrian by birth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45914161119285,"sku":"ByrdShop_0877282536","price":96.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780877282532_b303fd74-dd23-49d0-b14c-9c20b327470d.jpg?v=1787337824","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-tantric-tradition-9780877282532","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}