Passionate lighting

Author: Miranda Shaw

The book, now in its fourth reprint in the US, is an innovative contribution to the study of the history and teachings of tantra. Based on a direct reading of the oldest Tantric texts in their original language, it reveals how at the heart of this teaching are "the numinous women walkers of the sky ... passionate, ecstatic and fierce intensity enchanters", a radiant reflection of the free and powerful women first teachers of this religious tradition which, uniting "pure heart, clear mind and sexual desire", brings women and men to passionate enlightenment.