Comment: Although the British Museum is currently closed it is open online. I have included a link to the exhibition.
Full of wonders sacred and profane, the British Museum’s sweeping survey Tantra: Enlightenment to Revolution aims to reveal the history and tenets of a mysterious, transgressive spiritual tradition that has been intertwined with Hinduism and Buddhism for nearly a millennium and a half. Notorious in the West for its sacred sexual rites, the movement turned self- and world-abnegating aspects of these religions on their heads and reveled in the magic of the body and the earth as accelerated means to enlightenment.
Full of wonders sacred and profane, the British Museum’s sweeping survey Tantra: Enlightenment to Revolution aims to reveal the history and tenets of a mysterious, transgressive spiritual tradition that has been intertwined with Hinduism and Buddhism for nearly a millennium and a half. Notorious in the West for its sacred sexual rites, the movement turned self- and world-abnegating aspects of these religions on their heads and reveled in the magic of the body and the earth as accelerated means to enlightenment.