David Gordon White

"Tantra emerged out of South Asian elite and popular mainstream some time in the middle of the first millennium C.E."

"Perhaps the best-known mandala-cum-plotting device in the Tantric universe is the Sri Cakra and Sri Yantra of Hindu Tantric practice, a perfectly balanced three-dimensional geometric diagram of a seri…"

"The energy levels of the Tantric universe are generally represented as a set of concentric circles of hypostasized forms of the divine energy which, in addition to appearing as an array of divine enli…"

"The theory and practice of the Tantric mandala operates on a mesocosmic level , that is, on the level of a mediating template between protocosm and metacosm as well as between macrocosm and microcosm."

"The general scholarly consensus has been that the Yoginī cults so foundational to early Tantra emerged out of an autochthonous non-Vedic Indian source. The point I wish to make here is that it is quit…"