The Bauls of Bengal
Internationally, they are presented mainly as folk musicians. The initiatory physical and breath-based practices their songs actually encode in deliberately coded language are not intended as public teaching, and this entry accordingly reports their existence rather than decoding the veiled content itself.
Rabindranath Tagore's documentation of the Bauls, from c. 1905; UNESCO's 2008 recognition of the tradition
Heterodox wandering Bengali singer-mystics whose songs encode esoteric body-based spiritual teachings behind deliberately veiled language.