Understanding Tantrism
Andre Padoux

Tantrism has been an essential part of Indian religious life and philosophical thought for over a thousand years. Some of the most curious aspects, but also and above all many of the fundamental features of ancient or modern Hinduism, come from it: worship of the goddess Kali, mantras, ritual sexuality, rites of all kinds... On the other hand, Tantrism has an unjustified reputation in the West for extravagance and excess, fuelled by a literature that seeks more to seduce the public than to truly educate it.André Padoux, one of Europe's acknowledged specialists in the field, provides us with the indispensable keys to discovering this universe. He destroys inaccurate ideas and reveals the richness of the Tantric field and its interest for us, still today.

Hardcover - 11cm x 18cm
368 pages
Author: Andre Padoux
Editions Albin Michel