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This is the second of a series of posts examining the work of Baradā Kānta Majumdār, a Bengali author who was a member of the Theosophical Society in the 1880s and later collaborated with Arthur Avalon (Sir John Woodroffe) in his English translations of Tantric texts. Continue reading »
In an earlier post in this series I gave some attention to a series of articles published in The Theosophist by Baradā Kānta Majumdār and concerning “Tantric Occultism” including english translations from Pūrnānda’s Ṣatcakranirūpaṇa which precedes Arthur Avalon’s (aka Sir John Woodroffe) translation of this text by nearly forty years. 1
For this series of posts, I’m going to take a closer look at these articles – particularly in respect to Majumdār’s references to the Chakras and Kundalinī, and then go on to some thoughts on Avalon’s work, The Serpent Power. Continue reading »
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