The Threads of Tantra

You have heard what Tantra is. Now meet the traditions that actually made it.

The first book cleared away the myths. Traditions and Interpretations steps inside the great
schools themselves - and shows how to read their symbols and rites from within, so the ornament turns
back into instruction.

The second volume of The Threads of Tantra tells the streams apart and teaches you to read them:

• the Shaiva traditions - Siddhanta, Trika, Krama, Kaula - and the Goddess-centered Shakta and Shrividya schools
• the Yoginis, the fierce and beautiful feminine, and Tantra among the Buddhists (the Vajrayana)
• the Naths and where hatha yoga really came from; yantras and mandalas as maps, not decoration
• inside a ritual - mantra and the philosophy of sound, the subtle body, the guru and the lineag

Written for the reader who has the basics and wants the real texture of the tradition: comparative,
interpretive, and honest about what scholars still dispute. No Sanskrit required, nothing dumbed down -
the second step in a three-part education in one of the world's most misunderstood spiritual traditions.