Tantra (/ˈtæntrə/; Sanskrit: तन्त्र, lit. 'expansion-device, salvation-spreader; loom, weave, warp') is an esoteric yogic tradition that developed on the...
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Tantra, or tantric massage, are two defined massages developed in Berlin in 1977. The word Tantra refers to an esoteric yogic tradition that developed...
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Vajrayana (redirect from Buddhist Tantra)
('path of mantra'), Guhyamantrayāna ('secret mantra vehicle'), Tantrayāna ('tantra vehicle'), Tantric Buddhism, and Esoteric Buddhism, is a Buddhist tradition...
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Look up Tantra, tantra, or tantras in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tantra is a type of esoteric tradition in Hinduism and Buddhism. Tantra may also...
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numerous tantras and forms of tantric practice from medieval Indian Buddhist Tantra. There were various ways of categorizing these tantras in India....
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Kalachakra (redirect from Kalachakra Tantra)
and a major practice lineage in Indian Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism. The tantra is considered to belong to the unexcelled yoga (anuttara-yoga) class. Kālacakra...
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Tantric sex (redirect from Tantra sex)
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 is associated...
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Cakrasaṃvara Tantra (Tibetan: འཁོར་ལོ་བདེ་མཆོག་, Wylie: 'khor lo bde mchog, THL: khor lo dé chok, khorlo demchok, The "Binding of the Wheels" Tantra, Chinese:...
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The Vijñāna-bhairava-tantra (VBT, sometimes spelled in a Hindicised way as Vigyan Bhairav Tantra) is a Shiva Tantra, of the Kaula Trika tradition of Kashmir...
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Hindu tantric literature (redirect from Hindu tantra)
Kālī tantra Kālajñāna tantra Kumārī tantra Siddhalaharī tantra Niruttārā tantra Kālīvilāsa tantra Utpatti tantra Kāmadhenu tantra Nirvāṇa tantra Kāmākhyā...
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The Lakshmi Tantra (Sanskrit: लक्ष्मीतन्त्र, romanized: Lakṣmītantra) is one of the Pancharatra texts that is dedicated to the goddess Lakshmi and Narayana...
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The Guhyasamāja Tantra (Sanskrit: गुह्यसमाजतंत्र, romanized: Guhyasamājatantra, lit. 'Tantra of the Secret Society/Community'; Tibetan: གསང་འདུས་རྩ་རྒྱུད...
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The Yogini Tantra is a 16th- or 17th-century tantric text by an unknown author either from Assam or Cooch Behar and is dedicated to the worship of Hindu...
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The Radha Tantra (Sanskrit: राधा तंत्र, romanized: Rādhātantram), also known as Vāsudevarahasya (Vāsudeva's secret) is a Tantric scripture from Bengal...
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Tantra is a 2024 Indian Telugu-language horror thriller film written and directed by Srinivas Gopisetti. The film features Ananya Nagalla, Dhanush Raghumudri...
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postdate the Guhyasamāja Tantra; and because it is less doctrinally and structurally developed than tantras such as the Hevajra Tantra, its origins are likely...
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Chakra (section Hindu tantra)
a variety of ancient meditation practices, collectively denominated as Tantra, part of the inner traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism. The concept of the...
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Buddhist tantric literature (redirect from Buddhist Tantras)
works are a genre of Indian Buddhist tantric scriptures, variously named Tantras, Sūtras and Kalpas, which were composed from the 7th century CE onwards...
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Sinta Tantra (born 11 November 1979) is a British artist of Balinese descent. She was born in New York on 11 November 1979, and spent her childhood in...
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Tibetan tantric practice (redirect from Tantra Techniques)
Tantric initiation is required to enter into the practice of tantra. Unsurpassable Yoga Tantra (Skt. anuttarayogatantra, also known as Mahayoga) are in turn...
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Maithuna (Devanagari: मैथुन) is a Sanskrit term for sexual intercourse within Tantra (Tantric sex), or alternatively for the sexual fluids generated or the couple...
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The Guhyagarbha Tantra (Skt.; Tib. རྒྱུད་གསང་བ་སྙིང་པོ་, Gyü Sangwé Nyingpo; Wyl. rgyud gsang ba'i snying po, "The Tantra of the Secret Essence" or the...
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tradition, also called Trika Shaivism, is a non-dualist branch of Shaiva-Shakta Tantra Hinduism that originated in Kashmir after 850 CE. In its place of origin...
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Netra Tantra (Tantra of [Lord of] Eye) is a Tantra text attributed to non-Saiddhantika Mantra margic sect of Shaivism produced between circa 700 - 850...
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Hevajra (redirect from Hevajra tantra)
Hevajra's consort is Nairātmyā (Tibetan: བདག་མེད་མ་ bdag med ma). The Hevajra Tantra, a yoginītantra of the anuttarayogatantra class, is believed to have originated...
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Tantra (Black Magic) is an Indian Hindi language supernatural television series based on black magic which aired from 3 December 2018 to 5 April 2019 on...
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Sarvamnaya Tantra (Devanagari सर्वाम्नाय तन्त्र, IAST Sarvāmnāya Tantra) is a tantric tradition originating within Nepal. Sarvāmnāya translates literally...
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Seventeen Tantras of the Esoteric Instruction Series (Tibetan: མན་ངག་སྡེའི་རྒྱུད་བཅུ་བདུན, Wylie: man ngag sde'i rgyud bcu bdun) or the Seventeen Tantras of...
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dedicated to the goddess Kamakhya. The temple is the center of the Kulachara Tantra Marga and the site of the Ambubachi Mela, an annual festival that celebrates...
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