Corpus Tantrika is the body of Tantric traditions which have been studied mostly from textual and historical perspectives. An Anthropological voyage through living temples, to the rising of the age of shiva. The book reveals the creation and history of the world; the names and functions of a great variety of male and female deities and other higher beings; the types of ritual worship, especially of Goddesses; magic, sorcery, and divination; esoteric “physiology” as the mapping of the subtle or psychic body; the awakening of the mysterious serpent power (kundalini-shakti); techniques of bodily and mental purification; the nature of enlightenment; and sacred sexuality.

Transgressive Tantrika elements includes the use of skulls and other human bone implements as part of the rituals, fierce deities like Bhairava, Kubjika and Kali, Shiva which were used as part of meditative visualizations, ritual possession by the deities (avesa), sexual rites and offering the deity as well as consuming certain impure substances like meat, alcohol and sexual fluids.

Table of Contents

• INTRODUCTION
• THE TANTRIC PATH
• VEDIC CORPUS TANTRIKA
• TANTRIC FIRE AND ECSTASY IN VEDIC TRADITION
• THE SEXUAL CULT OF SHIVA
• TANTRIC ELEMENTS IN BUDDHISM
• THE TANTRIC PATH IN SHAIVISM AND SHAKTISM
• HINDU TANTRA
• ŚAIVA AND ŚAKTA TANTRA
• VAISNAVA
• THE TIBETAN TANTRIC DIASPORA
• WORSHIP AND RITUAL IN HINDU TANTRA
• YOGA, MANTRA AND MEDITATION
• MANDALAS AND YANTRAS
• THE SERPENT OF FIRE AND TANTRIC SEX
• KALACHAKRA TANTRA
• TRASCENDNETAL TANTRA AND THE INMOST LIGHT
• YOGA WITH MUDRAS
• YOGA WITHOUT SIGNS
• UTPATTI – KRAMA
• DEITY MANDALA & SACRED OFFERINGS
• THE MEDITATION PRACTICE
• THE KALACHAKRA MANDALA
• DEITIES OF THE GUHYASAMAJA CYCLE
• NYINGMA’S COMPLETION
• THE GREAT SEAL & THE GREAT PERFECTION
• THANGKA
• KARMAMUDRA
• VAJRAYANA BUDDHISM
• MAHASIDDHAS AND THE TANTRIC PATH
• VAJRAYANA IN RELATIONSHIP TO SHAIVISM
• TRADITIONAL LEGENDS
• VAJRAYANA RITUALS
• DEVATA YOGA
• VAJRA
• CHINESE ESOTERIC BUDDHISM
• KURUKULLA
• TANTRIC RITUALS AND MAGICKAL PRACTICES
• TANTRIC SEX
• KALACHAKRA TANTRA
• THE SAKTI PITHAS AND DAKSAYANI
• THE GREAT LORD
• LINGA WORSHIP
• ICONS OF SHIVA, ICONS OF POWER
• BIBLIOGRAPHY