Beyond Sex and Self: What Tantra Really Is
Fri 24 Apr
|The British Museum
What is Tantra? A hedonistic guide to sex? A terrifying demonic cult? Or a revolutionary path of spiritual transformation? This panel discussion will explore these questions and more uncovering what Tantra really is.
Time & Location
24 Apr 2020, 18:30 – 20:00
The British Museum , British Museum, Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3DG
About the event
Madhu Khanna (D. Phil. Oxon.) is a well-known scholar of Indic studies and has written extensively on the art of Tantra. Described by the Sunday Times as 'the respectable public face of modern Tantra', she is Tagore National Fellow at the National Museum, New Delhi. Until recently, she was the Director of the Centre for the Study of Comparative Religions and Civilizations, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.
She has been Bina and Haridas Choudhury Distinguished Fellow (2013–14) in Asian and Comparative Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco. She is the founding member and Chairperson of The Tantra Foundation, New Delhi and the Centre for Indic and Agamic Studies in Asia (CIASA), the academic wing of the Tantra Foundation. She has recently been nominated to the academic Council of Nalanda University, India.
Lama Gelongma Zangmo
Lama Gelongma Zangmo is Director of the Kagyu Samye Dzong Tibetan Buddhist Centre…