Tantra is a set of beliefs and practicesthat originates in India and combineseroticism, magic, and metaphysics.Its goals are the universal ones ofself-knowledge and liberated joy.With more than two million copies sold in more than a dozen languages,the Art & Imagination series provides illustrated introductions by distinguishedwriters and scholars to the worlds of mythology, symbols, and sacred traditions.This classic series has now been redesigned and reformatted for a newgeneration of readers, and it launches with the following four titles.