Dr. Douglas Brooks

Dr. Douglas Brooks - Tantric Philosophy

Dr. Douglas Brooks is among the world’s leading scholars of Hindu Tantrism and the esoteric traditions of the Goddess. He holds a Masters and Doctorate degree from Harvard University’s Center for the Study of World Religions. Douglas has held academic positions both in India and the United States, and he is currently a Professor of Religion at the University of Rochester in New York.

In addition to his formal Western education, Douglas lived for many years in India in the house of his Teacher, Gopala Iyer Sundarmoorthy, an eminent scholar of Hinduism and a Master of the Tantric Goddess tradition known as Auspicious Wisdom, or Shri Vidya.

Douglas is the author of a number of books and scholarly articles on Hinduism and the Comparative Study of Religion.