Tantra: From Enlightenment to Revolution review – shock and awe

British Museum, London
Ecstasy, passion and violence: the sacred power of female sexuality shapeshifts down the centuries in tantra’s unexpectedly radical philosophy There is a statue in this staggering show of the tantric god Bhairava, famous for his rages. Wild hair flows in rivulets from his carved granite face and his smile is alarmingly fanged. One of his four hands holds a noose, and another – now missing – used to brandish the skull of the creator god Brahma, which he ha