Kiss of the Yogini: Tantric Sex in Its South Asian Contexts
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For those who wonder what relation actual Tantric practices bear to the Tantric sex currently being marketed so successfully in the West, David Gordon White has a simple answer: there is none. Sweeping away centuries of misunderstandings and misrepresentations, White returns to original texts, images and ritual practices to reconstruct the history of South Asian Tantra from the mediaeval period to the present day. distinctive feature of South Asian Tantra: sexualized ritual practices, especially as expressed in the mediaeval Kaula rites. Such practices centred on the exchange of powerful, transformative sexual fluids between male practitioners and wild female bird and animal species, known as Yoginis, since it was only by drinking the sexual fluids of the Yoginis that men could enter the family of the supreme godhead and thereby obtain supernatural powers and transform themselves into gods. to understand Tantra and the crucial role it has played in South Asian history, society, culture and religion.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0226894835
ISBN13:9780226894836
Release Date:July 2006
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:391 Pages
Weight:1.50 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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