Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Note on Transliteration

Abbreviations of Titles of Sanskrit Works

1. Tantra in Its South Asian Contexts

2. The Origins of the Yoginī: Bird, Animal and Tree Goddesses and Demonesses in South Asia

3. The Blood of the Yoginī: Vital and Sexual Fluids in South Asian Thought and Practice

4. The Mouth of the Yoginī: Sexual Transactions in Tantric Ritual

5. The Power of the Yoginī: Tantric Actors in South Asia

6. The Consort of the Yoginī: South Asian Siddha Cults and Traditions

7. The Flight of the Yoginī: Fueling the Flight of Tantric Witches

8. The Sublimation of the Yoginī: The Subordination of the Feminine in High Hindu Tantra

9. Tantra for the New Millennium

Notes

Bibliography

Index