The Hindu Erotic: Exploring Hinduism and Sexuality

by David Smith and David Smith

Book Overview

Perhaps more than any other religion Hinduism is associated in the modern mind with the erotic. The Kama Sutra and the sexual activity portrayed in stone at the great medieval Indian temple complex of Khajuraho are renowned the world over. The classical Hindu exploration of eroticism is manifestly one of the supreme expressions of the human spirit. Hindu sculpture, defined as uniquely able to express inner states of being, is no less able to portray...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845113624
• ISBN13: 9781845113629
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 224 Pages