Sir John Woodroffe ✓

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British orientalist (1865–1936)

About Sir John Woodroffe

Sir John George Woodroffe, also known by his pseudonym Arthur Avalon, was a British judge, art connoisseur and Orientalist whose extensive and complex published works on the Tantras, and other Hindu traditions, stimulated a wide-ranging interest in Hindu philosophy and yoga in the West.

Notable works:

Karpuradi Stotra

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An examination of Indian Vedic doctrines shows that it is in tune with the most advanced scientific and philosophical thought of the West. Advanced
Western people often see obscenity where there is only symbolism. Obscenity
A Mantra is composed of certain letters arranged in definite sequence of sounds, of which the letters are the representative signs. To produce the designed… According

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