Power of Tantra, The by Urban Hugh B

Author:Urban, Hugh B. [Urban, Hugh B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-85773-158-6
Publisher: I.B.Tauris
Published: 2012-07-07T16:00:00+00:00

How much (if not all) of Bose’s narrative is imaginary may never be known. But it does provide telling evidence of the lingering power of Kāmākhyā as the supreme “place of desire” and locus of divine transgression in the popular imagination to this day.

Chapter Five

WHAT ABOUT THE WOMAN? GENDER POLITICS AND THE INTERPRETATION OF WOMEN IN TANTRA

What about the woman? That’s the most embarrassing question you can ask any Tantric.

—Agehananda Bharati, “Making sense out of Tantrism and Tantrics” (1976)1

Women are gods, women are life, women, indeed, are jewels. One should always have intercourse with women, whether one’s own wife or otherwise. What I have told you is the secret of all the tantras.

—Yoni Tantra (YT 7.16–17)

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