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A Hindu or Buddhist religious or esoteric text.
Examples of tantra in a Sentence
These volumes contain about a dozen works of the oldest school of Buddhism, the Hinayana, and about 300 works, mostly very short, belonging to the Tantra school.
The long period of depression seems not to have been without a beneficial influence on the persecuted Buddhist church, for these teachers are reported to have placed the Tantra system more in the background, and to have adhered more strongly to the purer forms of the Mahayana development of the ancient faith.
Further, he set his face against the Tantra system, and against the animistic superstitions which had been allowed to creep into life again.
The book presents a fascinating kaleidoscope of all aspects of Buddhism, including Tantra, Zen and the Pure Land beliefs of Japan.
I believe that this knot is what Tantra calls the coiled kundalini Shakti.
This class is strongly recommended for people who have taken highest yoga tantra initiations.
As experts on the art of Tantra, they not only practice the concept, they also teach it to others.
With so many couples struggling to make sex work in their relationship, Tantra might just be worth a try.
Tantra is an ancient tradition that originates on the Indian subcontinent; it recognizes sexual energy as a source of personal and spiritual empowerment.
We began studying Tantra formally in the 1990s, and with our teacher, Dr. Jonn Mumford (Swami Anandakapila Saraswati) in 1999.
We started exchanging emails shortly thereafter and met to talk about Tantra a couple of weeks later.
There are Tantra temples throughout India, but the Himalayas are perhaps the best experience for Hindu tradition.
Tantra yoga works on the belief that not only are sexual feelings and contact acceptable, they can be used as a method to further enlightenment.
Tantra yoga practitioners must first learn to release any blocks they have placed in their own path, to relax all body tensions, and to silence any mental chatter that would otherwise impede their progress.
Using tantra yoga, the partners attempt to release the forces of the Kundalini energy.
Abiding by the meaning of tantra, which is "expansion," a follower of Shakti focuses on the dynamic aspect of divinity, the Cosmic Mother.
If you follow the path of the Shakti, then you do not believe that tantra yoga is concerned with sexuality, but is instead all about transmitting energy into higher channels.
There's a lot to learn about tantra yoga, no matter what your level of expertise might be.
There are also some tantra yoga websites, each focusing on a particular segment of the belief.
Tantra centers more on the Kundalini path of sexual and spiritual enlightenment, also known as neo-tantra.
Sanatan Society explores the many aspects of tantra yoga.
Take it slow, as tantra is meant to be experienced.
The essence of Ananda Marga lies in the use of tantra within a yoga philosophy and lifestyle.
The word tantra, when broken down into the two words that make it up, 'tan' and 'tra', means the expansion and the liberation.
These roots refer to the fact that tantra is designed to liberate the mind by expanding it; only by expanding the mind can one become truly liberated from one's physical self and the physical world.
The word is an acronym for Integrated Science of Hatha, Tantra and Ayurveda.
Tantra is a collection of techniques culled from esoteric schools of Buddhism and Hinduism.
While generally regarded as "sex yoga" in the public eye, this is only a small part of the truth about Tantra.
He then returned to South Africa until 1975, when he moved back to Los Angeles to found Yoga Tantra Institute.
The origin of them is undoubtedly to be found in the Pancha Tantra, or Five Sections, an extensive body of early fables or apologues.
As in India, after the expulsion of Buddhism, the degrading worship of Siva and his dusky bride had been incorporated into Hinduism from the savage devil worship of Aryan and of non-Aryan tribes, so, as pure Buddhism died away in the north, the Tantra system, a mixture of magic and witchcraft and sorcery, was incorporated into the corrupted Buddhism.
But this full effect has only been worked out in the lapse of ages; the Tantra literature has also had its growth and its development, and some unhappy scholar of a future age may have to trace its loathsome history.
The nauseous taste repelled even the self-sacrificing industry of Burnouf, when he found the later Tantra books to be as immoral as they are absurd.
We met at the first Tantra class Mark taught.
We discussed sexuality on our first "date" and made a decision to explore the sexual aspects of Tantra together before we had even touched.