Tantra questions: bija mantras and Woodroffe's reputation today

Steven Lindquist slindqui at MAIL.SMU.EDU
Tue Dec 16 13:08:45 UTC 2008


Numerous references to bIja mantras can also be found in: Robert  
Yelle, Explaining Mantras: Ritual, Rhetoric, and the Dream of a  
Natural Language in Hindu Tantra, New York/London: Routledge, 2003.

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Steven Lindquist
Department of Religious Studies
Southern Methodist University
faculty.smu.edu/slindqui
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> --- On Sun, 12/14/08, Dean Michael Anderson <eastwestcultural at YAHOO.COM 
> > wrote:
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> From: Dean Michael Anderson <eastwestcultural at YAHOO.COM>
> Subject: Tantra questions: bija mantras and Woodroffe's reputation  
> today
> To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
> Date: Sunday, December 14, 2008, 9:29 PM
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> I have a couple of Tantra questions.
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> Can anyone recommend good books on bIja mantras?
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> Second, what is the modern opinion about the early writings on  
> Tantra by John
> Woodroffe (Arthur Avalon)?
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> Best,
>
> Dean
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> Dean Anderson
> East West Cultural Institute
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