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David Gordon White is an American Indologist and scholar of comparative religion. He is the J. F. Rowny Professor of Comparative Religion at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of several books on the history and practice of yoga, Tantra, and South Asian religions. White was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and received his B.A. from Harvard University in 1975. He then went on to receive his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1979 and 1983, respectively. White has held numerous academic positions, including professor of religious studies at the University of Michigan, professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is currently the J. F. Rowny Professor of Comparative Religion at the University of California, Santa Barbara. White has written extensively on the history and practice of yoga, Tantra, and South Asian religions. His books include The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India (1996), Kiss of the Yogini: "Tantric Sex" in its South Asian Contexts (2003), and Sinister Yogis (2009). He is also the editor of several volumes, including Tantra in Practice (2000) and Yoga in Practice (2011).

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Occupation Indology
Age 71 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 3 September, 1953
Birthday 3 September
Birthplace Pittsfield, MA
Nationality United States

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2012

In his review of White's book Kiss of the Yoginī: "Tantric Sex" in Its South Asian Contexts, the Indologist Gerald James Larson calls the book rich with citation, translations, illustrations, discussion of sex in rituals, and detailed ethnographic material that makes White's book a valuable secondary text on tantra. Larson notes and then criticizes two of White's main theses, namely that "neither Bhakti nor Vedanta were mainstream, rather Tantra was true 'mainstream' South Asian religiosity from 7th century CE to the beginning of the modern era", and that there is a need for "revisioning" of scholarly views on the historic religious Hindu and Buddhist practice in South Asia. Larson critiques these theories, stating that South Asia has been a "mind bogglingly" diverse, ancient and culturally rich region of the world, and claims of Tantra or any specific ideology being "mainstream" is neither persuasively presented by White nor reasonable. Further, adds Larson, the stated goal and call in White's book about the need for "revisionism" fails to properly appreciate the "rich diversity of South Asian sprituality", a persistent problem in Indology whether it be demands for revisionism from colonial, reformist, bhakti or another point of view. White is right, says Larson, in pulling Indology scholarship out of the "Bhakti was mainstream" trap, but then creates and trips into a new trap of "Tantra was mainstream". Larson cautions about Freudian eroticism and transference issues, and states that Tantra is more than sex, sexuality is likely to be allegorical in Tantric text known only to the initiate, not literal as described in White's book.

1981

David Gordon White took his B.A. in South Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin. He obtained an M.A. in Religion at the University of Chicago in 1981 and his Ph.D. in the history of religions there in 1988; his dissertation was titled The Other Gives Rise to Self: Dog-Men on the Borders of Medieval Europe, India, and China. He served as an assistant to Mircea Eliade. He is the J. F. Rowny Professor of Comparative Religion at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has been teaching since 1996. He has written numerous academic books and papers on the history of yoga.

1953

David Gordon White (born September 3, 1953) is an American Indologist.

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