Tantra the Path of Ecstasy
by Georg Feuerstein
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Read in March, 2008
This text is really a Buddhist primer to classical Tantra. Fueurstein is a Buddhist and so is this book's publisher. It's interesting how Feuerstein weaves Buddhism into the book and even encourages the reader to find modern Tantric practices offered by Buddism, but really does not dare to compare Hindu Tantric practices with Buddhist ones. This is probably the case because the conversation about Hindu and Buddhist traditions informing each other along the lines of shared texts, teachers, and pr...more
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This isn't about the sex. :-) It's about the history and practice of Tantra, which started off what has become Hatha Yoga (the physical exercises). I like how it clearly outlines how the Tantric philosophy differs from other yogic/Hindu philosophies in that creation is not considered evil, but a critical channel to the divine. Oh, and women/the feminine aren't bad, either.
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