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  • Tantras in Hinduism are esoteric scriptures. The word tantra is made up by the joining (sandhi in Sanskrit) of two Sanskrit words: tanoti (expansion) and...
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    Tantra (redirect from Tantric Yoga)
    Hinduism or Mantrayāna ("Mantra Vehicle") and Guhyamantra ("Secret Mantra") in Buddhism. In Buddhism, the Vajrayana traditions are known for tantric ideas...
    120 KB (14,980 words) - 20:35, 14 June 2024
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    Shaktism (redirect from Tantric deities)
    and concepts between Tantric Buddhism (Vajrayana tradition) found in Nepal and Tibet and the Tantric Shakta tradition of Hinduism. Both movements cherish...
    78 KB (8,788 words) - 07:02, 5 June 2024
  • context Tantric yoga, a form of yoga Tibetan tantric practice, tantric practices in Tibetan Buddhism Tantra, esoteric traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism...
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    Tantric sex or sexual yoga refers to a range of practices in Hindu and Buddhist tantra that utilize sexuality in a ritual or yogic context. Tantric sex...
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    ideas found respectively in Hinduism and Buddhism. Some traditions such as the Kaula tantric sect of Hinduism and Sahajiya tantric sect of Buddhism pursued...
    54 KB (6,100 words) - 03:33, 4 June 2024
  • modernists have re-asserted the 'Aryan origins' of Hinduism, "purifying" Hinduism from its Tantric elements and elevating the Vedic elements. Hindu modernists...
    300 KB (31,180 words) - 20:04, 1 July 2024
  • protective Durga or the violent Kali. Shaktism is closely related with Tantric Hinduism, which teaches rituals and practices for purification of the mind and...
    66 KB (6,711 words) - 06:16, 29 June 2024
  • cosmology A 3D representation of the Sri Yantra, a mystical diagram in Tantric Hinduism Semeru, a volcano in Java, Indonesia Mount Meru (disambiguation) Meru...
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  • believed to contain the essence of a given deity. They are found in Tantric Hinduism and in Esoteric Buddhism. A bījamantra is ritually uttered for the...
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  • romanized: ākamam) (Bengali: আগম, ISO15919: āgama) are a collection of several Tantric literature and scriptures of Hindu schools. The term literally means tradition...
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  • romanized: Tvaritā, lit. 'the swift one') is a goddess primarily featured in Tantric Hinduism. She is depicted to be a member of the group of fifteen yoginis called...
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    tradition of Hinduism, the goddess Tara (Sanskrit: तारा, Tārā) is the second of the ten Mahavidyas. She is considered a form of Adishakti, the tantric manifestation...
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    Mahakala (category Hindu tantric deities)
    2021-04-21. Bhattacharya Saxena, Neela (2011). "Gynocentric Thealogy of Tantric Hinduism: A Meditation Upon the Devi". Oxford Reference. Oxford: Oxford University...
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    Shiva (redirect from Shiva (Hinduism))
    one of the principal deities of Hinduism. He is the Supreme Being in Shaivism, one of the major traditions within Hinduism. Shiva is known as The Destroyer...
    168 KB (18,127 words) - 07:59, 26 June 2024
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    death in Shaktism. Kali is the first of the ten Mahavidyas in the Hindu tantric tradition. Kali's earliest appearance is when she emerged from Durga. The...
    63 KB (7,503 words) - 23:38, 1 July 2024
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    This denomination and all other forms of Tantric Buddhism have multiple sources in common with Tantric Hinduism. According to the Association of Religion...
    74 KB (7,415 words) - 12:06, 22 June 2024
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    Vajrayana (redirect from Tantric Buddhism)
    vehicle'), Tantrayāna ('tantra vehicle'), Tantric Buddhism, and Esoteric Buddhism, is a Buddhist tradition of tantric practice that developed in Medieval India...
    97 KB (11,619 words) - 12:49, 26 June 2024
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    Buddhist tantric literature refers to the vast and varied literature of the Vajrayāna (or Mantrayāna) Buddhist traditions. The earliest of these works...
    54 KB (6,081 words) - 08:35, 15 June 2024
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    Vedic religion is one of the major traditions which shaped Hinduism, though present-day Hinduism is significantly different from the historical Vedic religion...
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