Rati-Lila

The book is part of the series titled, KAMA KALA, unveiling the secrets of the erotic art created by the civilization of the world, under the guidance of leading authorities, the artistic manifestations of the erotic sense of the Greek, Roman, Japanese, Peruvian and Persian peoples.

A further area of unknown territory it now opened up with this seventh volume in the series, Rati-Lila, which is concerned with the erotic imagery of the temples of Nepal. Under a title which to some readers might appear frivolous — for “Rati-Lila” means “The sports of Love” — Professor Giuseppe Tucci, of the Italian Institute for the Middle and Far East in Rome, initiates us into the esoteric mysteries of Tantric thought in a luminous analysis which Is the product of over twenty-five years of uninterrupted contact with the civilisation of Nepal.

The reader will be struck at once by the exotic originality and the extraordinary humour shown in these erotic creations by the artists of Nepal.