Complete Kama Sutra
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CELTIC STUDIES/SEXUALITY
CELTIC STUDIESSEXUALITY
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EASTERN PHILOSOPHY/NEW AGE
EASTERN PHILOSOPHYNEW AGE
EASTERN SPIRITUALITY
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HEALTH AND HEALING
HINDUISM
INDIGENOUS TRADITIONS/NEW AGE
INDIGENOUS TRADITIONSNEW AGE
MEN & WOMEN STUDIES
NEW AGE/SPIRITUALITY
NEW AGESPIRITUALITY
NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
PERSONAL GROWTH/SELF-HELP
PERSONAL GROWTHSELF-HELP
RELATIONSHIPS/SEXUALITY
RELATIONSHIPSSEXUALITY
RELIGION/PSYCHEDELICS
RELIGIONPSYCHEDELICS
SELF-TRANSFORMATION AND CONSCIOUSNESS
TANTRA/SEXUALITY
TANTRASEXUALITY
Product details
- ISBN 9780892815258
- Weight: 674g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 1993
- Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The world's oldest and most widely read guide to the pleasures and techniques of sex, the Kama Sutrawas compiled in the fourth century A.D. by a Brahmin and religious scholar name Vatsyayana, who worked from texts dating back to the fourth century B.C. Until the present, the only English translation of his Hindu love classic was that of the famous English explorer Sir Richard Burton, published in 1883. Unlike Burton's version, Alain Daniélou's new translation preserves the numbered verse divisions of the original and includes two essential commentaries: the Fayamangalacommentary, written in Sanskrit by Yashodhara during the Middle Ages, and a modern Hindi commentary by Devadatta Shastri. Whereas Burton's Victorian reluctance to translate certain terms obscured our understanding of the philosophy and techniques of the Kama Sutra, Daniélou has preserved the full explicitness of the original, dealing with everything from the art of scratching to relations with the wives of others. Realistic and pragmatic in its approach, the Kama Sutradeals without ambiguity or hypocrisy with all aspects of sexual life--including marriage, adultery, prostitution, group sex, sadomasochism, male and female homosexuality, and transvestism. The text paints a fascinating portrait of an India whose openness to sexuality gave rise to a highly developed expression of the erotic.
Alain Danilou (1907-1994) was without question a Renaissance man. Following his early years as an artist, dancer, and musician in Paris (Cocteau, Diaghilev, and Stravinsky were among his friends), Danilou settled in India, where he spent fifteen years in the study of Sanskrit, philosophy, and music. After numerous university appointments in India, he returned in 1963 to Europe, establishing the Institute of Comparative Music Studies in Berlin for the reevaluation of Asian music. Danilou wrote more than thirty books about the philosophy, religion, history, and arts of India, including Gods of Love and Ecstasy; Myths and Gods of India; Virtue, Success, Pleasure, and Liberation; While the Gods Play; The Phallus; and Music and the Power of Sound.
