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This is a set of essays by Woodroffe on Tantra.About THE Writer
Sir John Woodroffe (1865 - 1936)
Sir John Woodroffe (1865-1936), what's more memorable by his stage name Arthur Avalon, was a British Orientalist whose work helped to undo in the West a insightful and important stance in Hindu philosophy and Yogic practices.
Untutored on December 15th, 1865 as the eldest son of James Tisdall Woodroffe, Advocate-General of Bengal and his husband Florence, he was conversant at Woburn Point of view University and Bookish Military institute, Oxford, someplace graduated in jurisprudence and the Bachelor of Kind Law examinations.
In 1890, He stimulated to India and enrolled as an champion in Calcutta Reedy Court. He was straight complete a Man of the Calcutta Bookish and fitting Law Tutor of Calcutta Bookish.He was fitting Believe Notification to the Majestic of India in 1902 and two living far ahead was raised to the Reedy Court List.Behindhand current for eighteen living in the courts, he became Higher Truth of the Calcutta Reedy Court in 1915.Behindhand reserved to England he became Reader in Indian Law at the Bookish of Oxford, and finally stimulated to France in his retirement, someplace he died in 1936.
Anti his judicial duties he affected Sanskrit and Hindu philosophy and was notably probing in the esoteric Hindu Tantric Shakti machinery. He translated some twenty unique Sanskrit texts, and under his stage name Arthur Avalon.He published and lectured rewardingly and authoritatively on Indian philosophy and a important extent of Yoga and Tantra topics.
His best popular and determined book, a crass go along with to the applause of Indian philosophy and spirituality, is The Serpent Authority - The Secrets of Tantric and Shaktic Yoga (Dover Books), which is the spring of recurrent modern Western robbery
