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Yoga, Tantra & Eastern Mysticism

Sir John Woodroffe, Tantra and Bengal

"An Indian Soul in a European Body?"

by Kathleen Taylor

A scholarly study of the judge who wrote as Arthur Avalon, examining his life in Calcutta and the collaborative making of the Avalon books. Taylor shows how much the Western picture of tantra and the chakras owed to Woodroffe's Bengali collaborators.

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