The Hindu Tantric World: An Overview by André Padoux

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Philosophy East and West 72 (3):1-5 (2022)
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André Padoux was among a small number of scholars, including Harvey P. Alper and Lilian Silburn, who introduced the study of Tantra to Western scholars. He authored such important works as Vāc: The Concept of the Word in Selected Hindu Tantras and Tantric Mantras: Studies on Mantrasastra. Padoux's 2017 Hindu Tantric World: An Overview is a significant revision of his 2010 Comprendre le tantrisme: Les sources hindoues.Padoux seeks to discover what constitutes Tantric Hinduism by investigating its essential notions and its numberless practices. These are bound together, "since there is no practice without a theory that gives it meaning and explains it". He discusses the Tantric body, as it "is a...

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