In the early days of Jayarava's Raves I did a series of rather impressionistic essays on the tantric rites - though I used a set that h...

Some time ago I was in the British Museum where they have a number of stone carvings from the stupa at Amaravati. The carvings are old and ...

The Blue Rite is also called The rite of subduing or overcoming. Sometimes it is known as the Black Rite or the Rite of Destruction, but th...

Yellow is the colour of the sun, of gold, and of fields of grain in the autumn just prior to harvest. Hence it is associated with richness, ...

The colour white has a very interesting range of associations. In Herman Melville's book Moby Dick the white whale became the focus for...

RED demands our attention. The associations we have with it are powerful: blood, menstruation, sex, arousal, danger, life. The attention g...