tantras

Scriptures that teach mantra chanting and Deity worship, especially for persons not initiated into study of the original Vedas. There are separate tantras for Vaishnavas and Saivites. The most important Vaishnava tantras are the Pancaratra Agamas.

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Tantra:

A system of religious philosophy in which the Divine Mother, or Power, is the Ultimate Reality; also the scriptures dealing with this philosophy. Yogic system that uses the energies of the body, sometimes the sexual energies, to transcend worldly attachments.

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Tantra:

Indian systems of theurgical concepts and magical training methods, easily adaptable for thaumaturgic purposes.

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tantra:

medieval yogic and ritualistic indian texts; esoteric, mystical teachings

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Tantra

Tantra (noun) refers to a Hindu or Buddhist spiritual Sadhana, that is performed using Yantra, Mantra, and specific rituals. One of the ways in which Tantra is explained is: Tanu trayate itii Tantra (which liberates from the limitations of the body). From point-of-view of spiritual practice, Tantra means:

Yantra ku Mantrare Bhediba hiin Tantra (Oriya), i.e. To pierce through an Yantra by applying a Mantra is Tantra.

One who practises Tantra is a Tantrik (also Tantric).

Tantra is infact the best way of Spiritual practice to attain Siddhis. In the times of Guru Matsyendranath, Guru Gorakhnath, Guru Viswamitra etc., tantra was a much respected and evolved science. However, with time, tantra became a Taboo, partly because of misuse-of-capabilites by certain Greedy individuals, and partly because the real knowledge was made very confined due to the fear of misuse and slowly got extinct. In recent times, the word has been associated with a variety of strange things, by people with orientation-less or poor imagination, which has nothing really to do with Tantra.

Tantra is a vast Science, with many different ways, Siddhis, rituals and know-hows of six-abilites: Shanti, (peace), Vashikaran (hypnotism and control), Stambhan (paralyze someone), Vidveshana (create conflict between persons), Uchhatan (driving away), and Maarana (destroy or kill someone). It is the misuse of such capabilities that led to extinction of the divine knowledge, however, these are never the main aims of tantra. The fear of tantra-practising is unfounded.

The construction of the Jagannath temple at Puri is based on the principle of Tantra. The temple is constructed in the form of Shri-Yantra and the deities are placed on Maha-Vairabh Yantra which was designed using 100000 special black stones (saalagrama).

The word dates back from the 7th century (at least) or earlier and the origin is from Sanskrit (from tan 'stretch'). [The word is accepted in New English Oxford Dictionary].€€€

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tantra:

tantra (thanthra). Means and methods of utilizing the mantras for one's own good.

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Tantra: Literally a loom or warp. Tantra refers to a group of religious writings written over a period of 300 years, starting in the eighth century. The texts deal mainly with folk magic and rituals. The Tantras are in the form of a dialogue between Shiva and Shatki, and are best known for their blending of sensuality and religious practice.

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Tantra: medieval yogic and ritualistic Indian texts

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Tantra:

Tantra ("Loom"): a type of Sanskrit work containing Tantric teachings; the tradition of Tantrism, which focuses on the shakti side of spiritual life and which originated in the early post-Christian era and achieved its classical features around 1000 C.E.; Tantrism has a "right-hand" (dakshina) or conservative and a "left-hand" (vama) or unconventional/antinomian branch, with the latter utilizing, among other things, sexual rituals

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Tantra:

Tantra. A Sanskrit word, tantra is often translated as the "weaving together" of the sacred masculine and feminine aspects of the Divine. It also translates as "liberation" or "transformation", since its practitioners (tantrikas) seek divine self-realization as their true goal.

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Tantra:

A sanskrit word meaning "rhythm".

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tantra

Meditative sexual union, female active, male passive, in Hindu tantra; male active, female passive, in Buddhist tantra. Tantra is a spiritual science divided into four divisionsKriya, ritual; Carya, conduct; Yoga, meditation; Anuttara, wisdom

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Zen Tantra: Combination of shiatsu and other oriental techniques, developed by Shizuto Masunaga, the originator of Zen Shiatsu. Zen Tantra is an antecedent variation of Bodywork Tantra.

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Tantras - the verbal root tan means "to expand”, so tantra is that which expands the meaning of the Vedas. A class of Vedic literature dealing with a variety of spiritual topics and divided into three branches: the Agamas, Yamala, and principal Tantras; a class of works teaching magical and mystical formularies, mostly in the form of dialogues between Siva and Durga. These are said to expound upon five subjects:

(1) the creation,

(2) the destruction of the world,

(3) the worship of the gods,

(4) the attainment of all objects, especially of six superhuman faculties, and

(5) the four methods of union with the supreme spirit by meditation.

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TANTRA

Usually associated with Tibetan sexual tantras, but a tantra is any ritualized or repeated movement, or "mode," designed to invoke a god or deva. Specifically it deals with teaching five important subjects: The Creation and Destruction of the World, the Worship of the Gods, Attainment of the Magical Siddhis and Union with the Supreme Identity.

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tantras:

tantras - treatises on ritual, meditation, discipline, etc.

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hindu path based in kundalini yoga and sex magic as a way to
enlightenment

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TANTRA -

1. ‘action; the woof and warp’.

2. set of books and methods utilizing the senses to go beyond the senses quickly.

3. meditative sexual union (the female in active, male passive, in Hindu tantra; the male active female passue in Buddhist tantra)

4. spiritual science divided into 4 divisions: Kriya, ritual; (arya, conduct; Yoga, meditation: Anuttara, wisdom.) (NAD)

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Tantra (Sanskrit). Lit., "rule or ritual". Certain mystical and magical works, whose chief peculiarity is the worship of the female power, personified in Sakti. Devi or Durga (Kali, Siva’s wife) is the special energy connected with sexual rites and magical powers-The worst form of black magic or sorcery.

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Tantra:

Yoga of weaving the spiritual into the physical.

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