Gorakhnath and the Kanphata Yogis c17.151

c17.151

In recent years a good deal of attention has been given to both Buddhist and Hindu Tantras. For the former the works of Dr. B. Bhattacharyya may be mentioned. He has edited a number of Vajrayāna works² with valuable introductions and has published *Buddhist Esoterism*, based largely upon these editions and in which he has repeated a good deal from his introductions to the Sanskrit works. He has also written *Indian Buddhist Iconography*. T. G. Shastri has edited the *Āryamañjuśrīmūlakalpa* in three volumes.³ These writings have not been translated into English. On the Hindu side interest, so far as translation is concerned, centres around the very extensive work of Arthur Avalon. Here again there are valuable studies of the subject in his *Serpent Power* (both editions) and in his *Shakti and Shakta*. Arthur Avalon has worked with Hindu *paṇḍits*.