Tantrika: Traveling the Road of Divine Love
by Asra Nomani
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A Foreign Correspondent's Search for Her Cultural and Spiritual IdentityWhat began as an assignment from her editor at the Wall Street Journal to investigate America's hottest new fad, the secrets of sexual ecstasy in Tantra, became a story that would lead reporter Asra Nomani halfway around the world and change forever her life, faith, and self-identity. From a New Age Tantric seminar in Santa Cruz to sitting at the feet of the Dalai Lama in India, from meditation caves in Thailand to show more crossing the Khyber Pass with Muslim militants and staring down the barrel of an Afghan soldier's AK-47, Nomani's trek unexpectedly climaxes in Pakistan, where she risks great danger in joining the hunt for kidnapped fellow reporter Danny Pearl. She travels the globe in search of this elusive divine love, but ultimately hers is a journey of self-discovery in which the divine within herself and within all women -- all tantrikas -- is revealed. show lessTags
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I really have no good idea of what this book was about. It almost seems as if the entire book was a long drawn out stream of conscious. I was continually getting lost and had no idea what was going on most the time. Occasionally something would really stick out and give me something to think about.
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Asra Q. Nomani, a Wall Street Journal correspondent, has also written for the Washington Post on the role of women in Islam and has covered the war in Afghanistan for Salon. Her work has appeared in such magazines as Cosmo, Playboy, and Outside. A Muslim born in India, Nomani was raised in the foothills of West Virginia, and currently lives in show more Morgantown with her son, Shibli show less
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- Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Biography & Memoir, Sexuality and Gender Studies, Travel, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 294.3925 — Religion Other religions Dharmic religions Buddhism Buddhism - Branches and schools Mahayana Buddhism Tantic Buddhism
- LCC
- BQ8915.4 .N66 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Buddhism Buddhism Modifications, schools, etc. Special modifications, sects, etc. Tantric Buddhism
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