Crossword clues for tantra
tantra
- Hindu or Buddhist scriptures
- Indian spiritual tradition
- Hindu text
- Hindu doctrine
- Some Hindu meditative exercises
- Philosophy that influenced Buddhism
- Hindu tradition that's two men's names in reverse
- Hindu text regarding rituals
- Hindu religious text
- Hindu doctrine with secret sexual rituals
- Hindu books
- Guru teachings
- Body of Hindu or Buddhist writings
- Asian enlightenment doctrine
- Asian belief system
- Spiritual path in Hinduism
- Hindu belief
- Sacred Hindu text
- Hindu meditative rituals
- Form of yoga
- 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
- Hindu religious writing
- Hindu scripture
- Book of Hindu doctrine
- Bronze sculptures perhaps turned round to reveal mystical text
- Eastern philosophy
- Hindu writings
- Hindu philosophy
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tantra \Tan"tra\ (t[a^]n"tr[.a]; t[u^]n"tr[.a]), n. [Skr.] (Hinduism) A ceremonial treatise related to Puranic and magic literature; esp., one of the sacred works of the worshipers of Sakti. -- Tan"tric (t[a^]n"tr[i^]k), a.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of Hindu religious book, 1799, from Sanskrit tantram, literally "loom, warp," hence, figuratively, "groundwork, system, doctrine," from tan "to stretch, extend," from PIE root *ten- "to stretch, extend" (see tenet).
Wiktionary
n. A Hindu or Buddhist religious or esoteric text.
WordNet
n. any of a fairly recent class of Hindu or Buddhist religious literature concerned with ritual acts of body and speech and mind
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 [syn: Tantrism]
Wikipedia
Tantra ( Sanskrit: तन्त्र), also called Tantrism and Tantric religion, is an ancient Indian tradition of beliefs and meditation and ritual practices that seeks to channel the divine energy of the macrocosm or godhead into the human microcosm, to attain siddhis and moksha. It arose no later than the 5th century CE, and it had a strong influence on both Hinduism and Buddhism.
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Usage examples of "tantra".
Tantras, the last skandhaor mental consciousness in generalis then further divided into three general domains: the gross, the subtle, and the very subtle.
Tantra believes that after Maha Pralaya, the great dissolution, the new creation builds itself upon the Sanskaras-impressions and moulds of the past.
Likewise, Tantra would show that even ordinary emotions and desires and confusions, if entered into with open awareness, would disclose the wisdoms at their base.
The rituals of certain classes of Tantra offered the rapid union of the individual with the Absolute by the supernatural power of sound, or mystic formulas and syllables, meditations and sexual acts, symbolic of the unification aimed at.
Purseroyal of Tantras said tentatively, the sweat of fear glistening at his temples.
I am in some haste, and would hear with rather less formality and more speed the wishes of Tantras toward our fair realm.
The Purseroyal of Tantras shrank back, weeping as quietly as he could, visibly struggling to keep control of himself.
Azoun was glad for this, not only because the troops raised from Hillsfar and Tantras promised to be well-trained warriors, but because the free cities could provide more wizards for his ranks.
Buddhists, though by no means all, are described in supposedly secret texts called Tantras and the word Tantrism is therefore used to designate this stage of Buddhism and Hinduism.
Second Diffusion, followers of the older Tantras and venerating Padmasambhava as a second Buddha eclipsing the historical Buddha, cannot be regarded as preserving an uncontaminated tradition from the earlier diffusion.
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.
And me with a suite and not getting forlorn looks from Jays or Tantras because one of the rooms is vacant.
Beyond these lay the complexities of Tantra and the mastery not merely of their texts but also the controlled visionary and psychological practices they inculcated.
As Bhattacharya put it, "There is hardly a Tantra in Hindu literature which is not tinged with Buddhistic ideas.
Transit, of course, wasn't Hindu - more a mixture of Buddhism and fascism, actually, a stew of Zen and Tantra and Platonism and Gestalt therapy and Poundian economics and what-all else, and neither Krishna nor Allah nor Jehovah nor any other divinity figured in its beliefs.