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‘Left-Handed’ Hindu Tantrism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Tennant C. Wright
Affiliation:
University of Santa Clara, California

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Sometimes the scholar can safely take hints for the direction of his scholarship from popular concerns. They may be deeper than they appear. As Erik H. Erikson has remarked in reference to the yearnings of young Americans for the teaching of the Eastern mystics: ‘The need to search for total and final values can often be met only under the condition that these values be foreign to everything one has been taught’.

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