Woodroffe’s pioneering work led to serious scholarly interest being taken in the different Traditions throughout India “ for the following 20 years, state sponsored organizations, such as the Kashmir Series, ensured that tantrik manuscripts that might otherwise have decayed, were produced, ensuring their survival.
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It heartening to see the entire series being put into print once more “ many of the Tantrik Text volumes are nigh impossible to get these days. The fact is that his series of Tantrik Texts, under the general editorship of Arthur Avalon, remains the first serious attempt to put the very important tradition into some sort of Context separated from the wild and general condemnation it received from Indian and European scholars alike. Review of: Prapanchsra Tantra (Calcutta : Sanskrit Press Despository u.a. That has led to him being described in modern Times as an apologist for the tantrik Tradition “ but that’s rather unfair, given the milieu in which he was living and working. Woodroffe’s English and indeed some of his anglicized Bengali colleagues would no doubt disapproved of his studies and his contacts.
Woodroofe, an Englishman, was a high Court judge in Bengal and despite his mastery of the Sanskrit Language and his closeness to several practitioners of the tradition, would have faced many difficulties from his fellow countrymen in a time when anything linked in whatever way to Sexuality never mind Religion “ was steeped in difficulty. saundaryalaharI is a work on tantra shAstra and it is not related to shankara’s school of thought 2. The Agamas teach several occult practices, some of which confer powers, while the others bestow knowledge and freedom. The reasons stated by those who doubt the authorship of bhagavatpAda are summarized below: 1. When Sir John Woodroofe started putting pen to Paper not far off one hundred years ago in a series of Books about the tantrik tradition, he felt obliged to use a pseudonym. Mahanirvana, Kularnava, Kulasara, Prapanchasara, Tantraraja, Rudra Yamala, Brahma Yamala, Vishnu Yamala, and Todala Tantra are the important works. Vol.11: Saradatilakatantram: with the Commentary named Padarthadratha (Part 2) Vol.10: Saradatilakatantram: with the Commentary named Padarthadratha (Part 1) Mind that you’ll sometimes find mentioned that the Prapanchasara Tantra talks about 300,000 Nadis (and actually, what does it really matter), but the original Sanskrit text really mentions 350,000. The Prapanchasara Tantra describes the Tantric worship of Ganesha. Out of which fourteen are particularly important. 1: Tantrabhidana with Vija-Nighantu and Mudra-Nighantu Another sect, also Tantric, was the HAIRAMBAS or Herambas. Prapanchasara Tantra says there are 300,000 and Goraksha Satarka says there are 72,000 Nadis.
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