Sir John George Woodroffe (15 December 1865 – 16 January 1936), also known by his pseudonym Arthur Avalon, was a British Orientalist whose extensive and complex published works on the Tantras, and other Hindu traditions, stimulated a wide-ranging interest in Hindu philosophy and yoga.[3]
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^ ab"Obituary: Sir John Woodroffe". The Times. 18 January 1936. p. 14.
Sir John George Woodroffe (15 December 1865 – 16 January 1936), also known by his pseudonym Arthur Avalon, was a British Orientalist whose extensive and...
qualified adepts". The first Western scholar to seriously study Tantra was JohnWoodroffe (1865–1936), who wrote about Tantra under the pen name Arthur Avalon...
journalist, writer and former diplomat. Colin Woodroffe, Australian geographer and geomorphologist JohnWoodroffe, a British Orientalist whose work helped...
Watkins (1910). The theory behind the book is given in Arthur Avalon (Sir JohnWoodroffe) The Serpent Power Madras (Chennai): Ganesh & Co (1913). One version...
Ṣaṭ-cakra-nirūpana and the Pādukā-pañcaka. These were translated in 1919 by JohnWoodroffe as The Serpent Power: The Secrets of Tantric and Shaktic Yoga. He identifies...
to Christopher Wallis, is atypical of most Tantric scriptures. Sir JohnWoodroffe translated the Tantra of the Great Liberation (Mahānirvāna Tantra) (1913)...
1880s with H. P. Blavatsky and other Theosophists, followed by Sir JohnWoodroffe's 1919 book The Serpent Power, and Charles W. Leadbeater's 1927 book...
the introduction of his translation of the Mahanirvana Tantra, Sir JohnWoodroffe, under the pseudonym Arthur Avalon, describes the individual makara...
of the Worlds Mahanirvana Tantra, translated by Arthur Avalon, (Sir JohnWoodroffe), 1913, Introduction and Preface. The Rishi are seers who know, and...
the 1900s, leading indeed to her "martyrdom". The British Orientalist JohnWoodroffe describes the ability of a yogi to draw air and fluid into the urethra...
from teachings of two sects of Vishnu-worshiping temple priests. Sir JohnWoodroffe (1865–1936) – also known by his pseudonym Arthur Avalon – was a British...
of the Worlds Mahanirvana Tantra, translated by Arthur Avalon, (Sir JohnWoodroffe), 1913, Introduction and Preface. The Rishi are seers who know, and...
Chapter Six: Shakti and Shakta Shakti and Shâkta, by Arthur Avalon (Sir JohnWoodroffe), 1918. Sri Katyayani Vrata Story Archived 2010-06-12 at the Wayback...
(Secretaries). Early members included Lord Kitchener, Mr Justice Woodroffe (JohnWoodroffe), Mr Justice Rampini (Robert Fulton Fulton), Mr Justice Holmwood...
Limited, at the Times of India Press. 1975. p. 11. Avalon, Arthur (Sir JohnWoodroffe) (1913, reprint 1972) (tr.) Tantra of the Great Liberation (Mahāanirvāna...
clairvoyance and establishing a guru-disciple relationship between them. JohnWoodroffe, in his translation of the Mahanirvana tantra from the original Sanskrit...
tantras. Evola's interest in tantra was spurred on by correspondence with JohnWoodroffe. Evola was attracted to the active aspect of tantra, and its claim to...
meal but normally performed indoors and without possession or dancing. JohnWoodroffe (writing as Arthur Avalon, 1918) affirms that the panchamrita of Tantra...
private clerk "Munshi" to Thomas Woodroffe, Registrar of the Appellate Court at Murshidabad (whose distant nephew, JohnWoodroffe—also a magistrate—and later...
shall lead our intellect. More interpretative translations include: Sir JohnWoodroffe (Arthur Avalon) (1913): "Om. Let us contemplate the wondrous spirit...
Martyn JohnWoodroffe (born 8 September 1950) is a Welsh swimmer. He won a silver medal at the 1968 Olympic Games. Woodroffe was born in Cardiff, Wales...
2012.[permanent dead link] Shakti and Shâkta by Arthur Avalon (Sir JohnWoodroffe), [1918], Chapter Six Shakti and Shakta. "4) The face in the North is...
Ernest Binfield Havell (1864–1937), a close friend of Indologist Sir JohnWoodroffe was also devoted to him. He also finds mention in Mark Twain's non-fiction...
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label owner John I. Woodruff (1864–1962), American football coach and member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives JohnWoodroffe (1865–1936),...
theology is symbolic and done in effigy in modern times. For instance, Sir JohnWoodroffe published a commentary on the Karpuradistotram, where he writes that...
of the Worlds Mahanirvana Tantra, translated by Arthur Avalon, (Sir JohnWoodroffe), 1913, Introduction and Preface. The Rishi are seers who know, and...
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