
by Jean Varenne · RBA Coleccionables · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447324507

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«El Tantrismo» is Jean Varenne's essay on Hindu and Buddhist tantrism, published by RBA Coleccionables in hardcover (304 pages, in Spanish).
The book studies tantrism as a current of Hinduism and Buddhism: it reviews its millenary history, its origins, its myths, its rites and its texts, and pays attention to both theory and practice, including the sacred dimension of sexuality.
Published in 2002; the full title is «El tantrismo o la sexualidad sagrada».
For readers of philosophy, religion and spirituality interested in the traditions of India.

Jean Varenne was a French Indologist and a prominent figure of the Nouvelle Droite. He taught Sanskrit at the Aix-Marseille University, then at Jean Moulin University Lyon 3, where he was eventually nominated professor emeritus. Varenne has also been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, and at other universities in India, Cambodia and Mexico.
