LEADER 04631nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910823497203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-226-89484-3 010 $a0-226-02783-X 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226027838 035 $a(CKB)2550000001095474 035 $a(EBL)1183032 035 $a(OCoLC)842264882 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000871757 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12440403 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000871757 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10824165 035 $a(PQKB)10022565 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1183032 035 $a(DE-B1597)524623 035 $a(OCoLC)842881754 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226027838 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1183032 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10694633 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL487342 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001095474 100 $a20020725d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aKiss of the yogini$b[electronic resource] $e"Tantric sex" in its South Asian contexts /$fDavid Gordon White 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2003 215 $a1 online resource (393 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-89483-5 311 $a1-299-56092-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 335-356) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tPreface -- $tNote on Transliteration -- $tAbbreviations of Titles of Sanskrit Works -- $t1. Tantra in Its South Asian Contexts -- $t2. The Origins of the Yogin?: Bird, Animal and Tree Goddesses and Demonesses in South Asia -- $t3. The Blood of the Yogin?: Vital and Sexual Fluids in South Asian Thought and Practice -- $t4. The Mouth of the Yogin?¯: Sexual Transactions in Tantric Ritual -- $t5. The Power of the Yogin?: Tantric Actors in South Asia -- $t6. The Consort of the Yogin?: South Asian Siddha Cults and Traditions -- $t7. The Flight of the Yogin?: Fueling the Flight of Tantric Witches -- $t8. The Sublimation of the Yogin?: The Subordination of the Feminine in High Hindu Tantra -- $t9. Tantra for the New Millennium -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aFor those who wonder what relation actual Tantric practices bear to the "Tantric sex" currently being marketed so successfully in the West, David Gordon White has a simple answer: there is none. Sweeping away centuries of misunderstandings and misrepresentations, White returns to original texts, images, and ritual practices to reconstruct the history of South Asian Tantra from the medieval period to the present day. Kiss of the Yogini focuses on what White identifies as the sole truly distinctive feature of South Asian Tantra: sexualized ritual practices, especially as expressed in the medieval Kaula rites. Such practices centered on the exchange of powerful, transformative sexual fluids between male practitioners and wild female bird and animal spirits known as Yoginis. It was only by "drinking" the sexual fluids of the Yoginis that men could enter the family of the supreme godhead and thereby obtain supernatural powers and transform themselves into gods. By focusing on sexual rituals, White resituates South Asian Tantra, in its precolonial form, at the center of religious, social, and political life, arguing that Tantra was the mainstream, and that in many ways it continues to influence contemporary Hinduism, even if reformist misunderstandings relegate it to a marginal position. Kiss of the Yogini contains White's own translations from over a dozen Tantras that have never before been translated into any European language. It will prove to be the definitive work for persons seeking to understand Tantra and the crucial role it has played in South Asian history, society, culture, and religion. 606 $aSex$xReligious aspects$xTantrism 606 $aTantrism$zSouth Asia 610 $atantric sex, sexuality, cultural appropriation, ritual, ceremony, south asia, religion, spirituality, tantra, kaula, rites, yoginis, transformation, spirits, animal, supernatural, gods, divinity, spiritual growth, colonialism, hinduism, hindu, demonesses, goddesses, witches, femininity, nonfiction, gender, cults, siddha, tradition, folk belief, folklore. 615 0$aSex$xReligious aspects$xTantrism. 615 0$aTantrism 676 $a294.5/514/0954 700 $aWhite$b David Gordon$01084879 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823497203321 996 $aKiss of the yogini$93964825 997 $aUNINA