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With its white stone facades, arcaded streets, Grosse Horloge, Renaissance Town Hall and beautiful 17th and 18th century shipowners' residences, La Rochelle has a remarkable architectural heritage. It is also the 2nd largest port...
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The capital of the Charente region has many treasures to offer visitors: Saint-Pierre cathedral, the resurgence of the river Touvre, Romanesque buildings... not forgetting the annual International Comics Festival. Lovers of heritage, culture and...
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In Japan, the tradition of tattooing is reserved for the yakuza, the Japanese mafia. Still frowned upon by the population, tattooing is tolerated by Westerners and tourists, but remains a negative connotation in the archipelago. On the whole, tattooed people are...
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In Japan, it is called chanoyu or sadō. Chanoyu literally means "hot water for tea" and usually refers to the ceremony alone. The tea ceremony, a moment of sharing, is part of a wider philosophy that is...
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Why are there erotic sculptures on the props of Kathmandu's pagodas? What is the relationship between sex and the sacred? This book - Tantra, Theology of Love and Freedom - the fruit of decades of field research, provides answers to these questions. A journey to the heart of the cults of ecstasy.
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