Tools for Tantra

by Harish Johari

Overview

Tantric yantras are precise geometric forms that have been used for centuries as tools for self-realization and the attainment of mystical powers. In Tools for Tantra, Tantric practitioner and scholar Harish Johari has re-created the exact colors and proportions of the primordial yantras along with step-by-step instructions for their accurate construction, coloring, and use.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781620550755
Publisher:	Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Publication date:	11/01/1988
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	162
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Harish Johari (1934-1999) was a painter, sculptor, and composer of Indian music. He authored twelve books on Eastern spirituality, including Ayurvedic Massage; Ayurvedic Healing Cuisine; Breath, Mind, and Consciousness; The Birth of the Ganga; Dhanwantari; and Chakras. He also produced several audiocassettes of mantra meditations, including Sounds of Tantra, Attunements for Day and Night, and Sounds of the Chakras.
Here is a hot link to a web site dedicated to Harish Johari's work that was set up by his students. http://www.sanatansociety.com/artists_authors/aa_harish_johari.htm
Harish Johari (1934-1999) was a distinguished North Indian author, Tantric scholar, poet, musician, composer, artist, and gemologist who held degrees in philosophy and literature and made it his life's work to introduce the culture of his homeland to the West.
Here is a hot link to a web site dedicated to Harish Johari's work that was set up by his students. http://www.sanatansociety.com/artists_authors/aa_harish_johari.htm

Table of Contents

1. What is Tantra?

2. Temperament and Tantra

3. Mantra: the Auditory Tool

4. Yantra: the Visual Tool

5. Yantras of the Ten Mahavidyas

6. Tantric Worship

Index

Color Plates

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