tantra
IPA: tˈæntrʌ
noun
- A Hindu or Buddhist religious or esoteric text.
- (Hinduism, Buddhism) The esoteric traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism that developed in India from the middle of the 1st millennium CE onwards.
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Examples of "tantra" in Sentences
- The word tantra (rgyud) means an everlasting continuum.
- The root of the word tantra means to stretch or to continue without a break.
- The term tantra refers to this intricately interwoven subject matter and the texts that discuss it.
- The Sanskrit word tantra comes from the same root that gives us the words 'intend', 'attend' and 'stretch'.
- Moreover, the word tantra has the connotation of something that goes on and on with continuity, something that continues over time with connection from prior to later moments.
- The term tantra has taken on explicitly sexual meanings in popular American usage, and Gaskin's tantric approach to masculinity did involve prescriptions for men's sexual behavior.
- Further, everlasting continuums may also refer to meanings discussed by words or the words of texts discussing them, as is the case when the word tantra refers to the secret mantra teachings.
- Our notions of being tight, of holding tension, anger and frustration are the opposite of the notion of tantra where you find what you intend to find, give it attention and then (physically and spiritually) stretch.
- Here, since the text indicates primarily the cleansing of the everlasting continuum of the mind when it is tarnished with fleeting stains, and thus since it concerns the everlasting mental continuum, it includes the term tantra, meaning everlasting continuum, in its title.
- The way she writes you might think that tantra is a solid, inescapable fact of true polyamorous living, and that every polyamorist is a spiritual yogi seeking enlightenment through the energies released and shared during intercourse, provided of course that one has taken the time to properly align one’s chakras.
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