• Sir John George Woodroffe (15 December 1865 – 16 January 1936), also known by his pseudonym Arthur Avalon, was a British Orientalist whose extensive and...
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    qualified adepts". The first Western scholar to seriously study Tantra was John Woodroffe (1865–1936), who wrote about Tantra under the pen name Arthur Avalon...
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  • journalist, writer and former diplomat. Colin Woodroffe, Australian geographer and geomorphologist John Woodroffe, a British Orientalist whose work helped...
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    Watkins (1910). The theory behind the book is given in Arthur Avalon (Sir John Woodroffe) The Serpent Power Madras (Chennai): Ganesh & Co (1913). One version...
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    Ṣaṭ-cakra-nirūpana and the Pādukā-pañcaka. These were translated in 1919 by John Woodroffe as The Serpent Power: The Secrets of Tantric and Shaktic Yoga. He identifies...
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    1880s with H. P. Blavatsky and other Theosophists, followed by Sir John Woodroffe's 1919 book The Serpent Power, and Charles W. Leadbeater's 1927 book...
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  • to Christopher Wallis, is atypical of most Tantric scriptures. Sir John Woodroffe translated the Tantra of the Great Liberation (Mahānirvāna Tantra) (1913)...
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    Purnananda Swami Sat-Cakra-Narupana, The Muladhara Cakra, transl. Sir John Woodroffe in The Serpent Power: Being the Ṣaṭ-cakra-nirūpana and Pādukā-pañcaka...
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  • Martyn John Woodroffe (born 8 September 1950) is a Welsh swimmer. He won a silver medal at the 1968 Olympic Games. Woodroffe was born in Cardiff, Wales...
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    Kathleen (2001). Sir John Woodroffe, Tantra and Bengal: 'An Indian Soul in a European Body?'. Routledge. ISBN 978-0700713455. Woodroffe, John (1950) [1918]....
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