History of the Tantric Religion: An Historical, Ritualistic and Philosophical Study.

• Author: Gerow, Edwin
• Position: Brief Reviews of Books

History of the Tantric Religion: An Historical, Ritualistic and Philosophical Study. By N. N. BHATTACHARYYA. 2nd edition. New Delhi: MANOHAR, 1999. Pp. 483. Rs 500. [1st ed., 1982.]

This slightly modified and expanded version of Bhattacharyya's important work of 1982 will again be welcomed by historians of Indian religions. Thoroughly informed by the sources (including not always up-to-date Western sources, such as Bergaigne, Weber, Fraser, and Keith), this book serves, first and foremost, to lay out tantric literature and the various views that have been had of it, both within and without India--cf., inter alia, the...