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Thames & Hudson Tantra The Indian Cult of Ecstasy by Philip Rawson
With More Than Two Million Copies Sold In More Than A Dozen Languages, The Art & Imagination Series Provides Illustrated Introductions By Distinguished Writers And Scholars To The Worlds Of Mythology, Symbols, And Sacred Traditions. This Classic Series Has Now Been Redesigned And Reformatted For A New Generation Of Readers, And It Launches With The Following Four Titles.Tantra Is A Set Of Beliefs And Practices That Originates In India And Combines Eroticism, Magic, And Metaphysics. Its Goals Are The Universal Ones Of Self-Knowledge And Liberated Joy. 186 Illustrations, 37 In Color