Relating to Buddhist or Hindu mystical texts

Usage examples of tantric.

The two of them then danced the tandav, the great and terrible dance of procreation, awakening the entire universe with their tantric sexuality, and at the moment of their joining, by using the formidable energies unleashed by their union, Lord Brahma was able to restore Kama to his body.

The Tantric hymns to the Goddess offer some of the most provocative parallels to the Song of Songs.

Sangs-rgyas-rgya-mtsho, Tibetan Grand Lama, formidable amd somewhat sinister exponent of Tantric kungfu.

These languages are most common in kundalini yoga and the early stages of tantric unfolding, but can be found to some degree in virtually all beginning stages of intense meditation.

Lamaism into the structure of the doctrine of emanations, the Tantric systems with their organisation by mandalas and the functional distribution into tutelaries and protectors.

The work of Atisa is marked by a great strengthening of the monastic tradition and its disciplines, but in common with all the teachers, both Indian and Tibetan, over the next two centuries he accepted, though in their symbolic and esoteric forms, the Indian Tantric teachings, practices and meditations that the Tibetans found particularly to their taste.

In the end the Tantric practices and deities may have been understood as symbols, with visionary meditation contributing new entities or variants, but at the time of their compositon the Tantras were absorbing Hindu gods and popular deities as well as practices from esoteric or mystery cults.

Tantric texts multiplied so did the prescribed combinations for a mandala, differing in respect of ritual intention, sectarian affiliation and the visionary experience of the practitioner.

Tibetan Tantric texts describe many rites for a variety of spiritual and magical purposes.

Despite the literalness of Tantric texts and the explicitness of paintings and sculpture their symbolic interpretation prevailed in Tibet and it would be a serious misunderstanding to suppose otherwise.

Passages in Tantric texts can be read to mean that in the course of his practice the yogin carried the khatvanga when identifying himself with the central deity of the ritual.

Tibetan monastery wall painting was often a highly complex rendering of Tantric cycles, consisting of the principal god of the texts acknowledged as authoritative in the monastery, with his manifestations, entourage and protectors.

SANGGE Chinese name for sDe-srid Sangs-rgyas-rgya-mtsho, Tibetan Grand Lama, formidable amd somewhat sinister exponent of Tantric kungfu.

Nagarjuna's Mahayana (Madhyamika) revolution, on the other hand, was Non-dual (advaya) to the core, seeing that nirvana and samsara are "not two," which also gave rise to tantric or Vajrayana Buddhism, where even the lowest defilements were seen to be perfect expressions of primordial wakefulness (rigpa).

You are then to inform His Holiness the Dalai Lama that I long for our Empire to enjoy the benefits of the Tantric doctrine, which I acknowledge to be the most perfect vehicle of Buddhist truth, and have therefore invited these lamas to Peking, where they will be able to worship after their fashion and promote their doctrine among my people.