{i} spiritual system for the wholesome development of human oneness and the visible world which combines elements of Hinduism and paganism including mystical or magical elements such as mudras or mantras and erotic rites; Hindu or Buddhist mystical or magical literature written in Sanskrit on ritualistic acts and ceremonial worship
In Buddhism, Tantra generally refers the Vajrayana school This school relies more heavily on the practice of yoga, mantras, rituals and visualizations of deities
any of a fairly recent class of Hindu or Buddhist religious literature concerned with ritual acts of body and speech and mind
A tradition of dhyana yoga called tantra yoga (also called kundalini yoga) which involves male-female cosmic symbolism, is often associated with Saktism (worship of the Goddess) It has two forms (two subtraditions): Right-handed Tantra and Left-handed Tantra Right-handed Tantra involves activation of a succession of centers along the vertical axis of the body called chakras by raising and refining the kundalini energy that is latent at the base of the spine, culminating in the bliss of union with ultimate reality Left-handed Tantra involves the same except it is pursued as a transcendence of opposites and makes use of practices forbidden to orthodox Hindus (e g , eating the five forbidden foods, ritualized sex) as vehicles of transcendence
Tantra (which means "woven together") is a term loosely applied to a system of Hindu yoga in which the union of male and female principles is revered In practice, this has led to a form of physical ritual in which slow love-making is seen as a path to the divine and forms a path to the experience of spiritual ecstasy A modified version of Hindu Tantra can also be found in Tibetan Buddhism
doctrine of enlightenment as the realization of the oneness of one's self and the visible world; combines elements of Hinduism and paganism including magical and mystical elements like mantras and mudras and erotic rites; especially influential in Tibet
A system of religious philosophy in which the Divine Mother, or Power, is regarded as Ultimate Reality; also the scriptures dealing with this philosophy
> A vehicle for developing techniques to create an enlightened world Tantra is associated with esoteric practices of Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist traditions
In Tibetan Buddhism, a term for various kinds of texts; mainly refers to the practice of the meditative systems of the Vajrayana
(Tantra Yoga): Mode of lovemaking that involves breath control, "energy exchange" meditations, "techniques" of "sexual healing," and "transformative touch " Its theory posits "sexual energy "
A system of Indian philosophy that teaches one to look upon all Creation as a manifestation of the Divine
A highly powerful system of spiritual development used in the Hindu and Buddhist traditions, which makes use of empowerments, mantra, yantra, meditation and breath control
In some Indian religions, a text that deals with esoteric aspects of religious teaching. There is considerable tantric literature and practice in Hinduism, Buddhism, and, to a lesser extent, Jainism. Because tantric practices typically represent teachings of relatively late development and incorporate elements of different traditions, they are often eschewed by orthodox practitioners. In Hinduism, tantras deal with popular aspects of the religion, such as spells, rituals, and symbols. Buddhist tantric literature, believed to date from the 7th century or earlier, has reference to numerous practices, some involving sexual activity, that have no basis in canonical literature
1 a yogic system which is in its nature synthetical and starts from a great central principle of Nature, a great dynamic force of Nature: in the Vedic methods of yoga [i e the trimarga] the lord of the yoga is the purusa, the Conscious Soul, but in tantra it is rather prakrti, the Nature-Soul, the Energy, the Will-in-Power executive in the universe; it was by learning and applying the secrets of this Will-in-Power, its method, its tantra, that the tantrika yogin pursued the aims of his discipline-mastery, perfection, liberation, beatitude; the method of tantrika discipline is to raise Nature in man into manifest power of spirit
1) The word tantra refers to certain Hindu and Buddhist scriptures, or the rituals and practices described therein They deal especially with meditative techniques and rituals involving sexual practices 2) A word invented to describe the Hindu and Buddhist "scriptures" (which are actually called Sutras and Vedas) which show people "shortcuts" to getting Prajna ("enlightenment")