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“L'induismo (per utilizzare un termine piuttosto vago ma comodo) medievale era, come l'ortodossia indiana moderna che è venuta dopo, in larga parte tantrico.”

John Woodroffe

dalla prefazione a Principles of Tantra, 1914
Origine: Citato in André Padoux, Tantra, traduzione di Carmela Mastrangelo, a cura di Raffaele Torella, Einaudi, 2011, p. 15.

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John Woodroffe: Frasi in inglese

“There are then based on this common foundation three main religions, Brahmanism, Buddhism and Jainism. Of the second, a great and universal faith, it has been said that, with each fresh acquirement of knowledge, it seems more difficult to separate it from the Hinduism out of which it emerged and into which (in Northern Buddhism) it relapsed. This is of course not to say that there are no differences between the two, but that they share in certain general and common principles as their base.”

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John Woodroffe

Sir John Woodroffe (originally under pseudonym Arthur Avalon): Shakti and Shakta, p.5., quoted in Elst, Koenraad (2002). Who is a Hindu?: Hindu revivalist views of Animism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and other offshoots of Hinduism. ISBN 978-8185990743