By David Gordon White
Kiss of the Yogini makes a speciality of what White identifies because the sole really virtue of South Asian Tantra: sexualized ritual practices, particularly as expressed within the medieval Kaula rites. Such practices situated at the trade of robust, transformative sexual fluids among male practitioners and wild woman poultry and animal spirits often called Yoginis. It used to be purely by means of "drinking" the sexual fluids of the Yoginis that males may perhaps input the kinfolk of the ideal godhead and thereby receive supernatural powers and rework themselves into gods. via concentrating on sexual rituals, White resituates South Asian Tantra, in its precolonial shape, on the heart of non secular, social, and political lifestyles, arguing that Tantra was once the mainstream, and that during many ways it maintains to steer modern Hinduism, whether reformist misunderstandings relegate it to a marginal position.
Kiss of the Yogini includes White's personal translations from over a dozen Tantras that experience by no means sooner than been translated into any eu language. it is going to turn out to be the definitive paintings for people looking to comprehend Tantra and the an important position it has performed in South Asian heritage, society, tradition, and religion.
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