Remembering Ourselves: On Some Countercultural Echoes of Contemporary Tantric Studies

Through a brief cultural genealogy of the West’s encounter with Asian Tantric traditions from the late 1880s through the early 1980s and some personal reflections on the controversies surrounding the author’s Kali’s Child, this essay suggests that contemporary Indology’s orienting turn to Tantric te...

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Main Author: Kripal, Jeffrey J. 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox 2007
In: Religions of South Asia
Year: 2007, Volume: 1, Issue: 1, Pages: 11-28
Further subjects:B Advaita Vedanta
B Tantra
B Counterculture
B Orientalism
B Ramakrishna
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