Tantric may refer to:
Religion
Religious practices
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Tantra massage
Tantric massage, is a form of bodywork that may incorporate principles derived from Tantra, a spiritual tradition with roots in ancient India. Interpretations of tantric massage vary: some view it primarily as a form of erotic massage, while ot ...
, a form of erotic massage
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Tantric sex
Tantric may refer to:
Religion Religious practices
* Tantra massage, a form of erotic massage
* Tantric sex, Hindu and Buddhist tantric practices that utilize sexual activity in a ritual or yogic context
* Tantric yoga, a form of yoga
* Tibetan ta ...
, Hindu and Buddhist tantric practices that utilize sexual activity in a ritual or yogic context
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Tantric yoga
Tantra (; ) is an esoteric yogic tradition that developed on the Indian subcontinent beginning in the middle of the 1st millennium CE, first within Shaivism and later in Buddhism.
The term ''tantra'', in the Indian traditions, also means ...
, a form of yoga
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Tibetan tantric practice
Tibetan tantric practice, also known as "the practice of secret mantra", and "tantric techniques", refers to the main tantric practices in Tibetan Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism is a form of Buddhism practiced in Tibet, Bhutan and Mongolia. It ...
, Tibetan Buddhist tantric practices
Religious texts
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Buddhist tantric literature
Buddhist tantric literature refers to the vast and varied literature of the Vajrayāna (or Mantrayāna) Buddhist traditions. The earliest of these works are a genre of Indian Buddhist tantric scriptures, variously named Tantras, Sūtras and Kalp ...
, esoteric Buddhist texts
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Hindu tantric literature
Hindu tantric literature refers to esoteric scriptures in Hinduism.
Classes
The word ''tantra'' is made up by the joining (''sandhi'' in Sanskrit) of two Sanskrit words: ''tanoti'' (expansion) and ''trayati'' (liberation). Tantra means liberat ...
, esoteric Hindu texts
Religious traditions
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Tantra
Tantra (; ) is an esoteric yogic tradition that developed on the India, Indian subcontinent beginning in the middle of the 1st millennium CE, first within Shaivism and later in Buddhism.
The term ''tantra'', in the Greater India, Indian tr ...
, a Hindu and Buddhist esoteric tradition
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Neotantra
Neotantra, navatantra (Sanskrit: नव, ''nava'' 'new'), or tantric sexuality is a Western new religious movement influenced by the Eastern esoteric spiritual traditions of Tantra.
History
Rooted in elements of Hindu and Buddhist tantras, neo ...
, a New Age practice
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Vajrayana
''Vajrayāna'' (; 'vajra vehicle'), also known as Mantrayāna ('mantra vehicle'), Guhyamantrayāna ('secret mantra vehicle'), Tantrayāna ('tantra vehicle'), Tantric Buddhism, and Esoteric Buddhism, is a Mahāyāna Buddhism, Mahāyāna Buddhis ...
, an Indian and Tibetan Buddhist trantric tradition
Music
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Tantric (band)
Tantric is an American Rock music, rock band from Louisville, Kentucky. The group was founded in 1998 by Todd Whitener, Jesse Vest and Matt Taul after they left Days of the New, and joined forces with vocalist Hugo Ferreira. Ferreira is the only ...
, an American rock band
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''Tantric'' (album), a 2001 album by Tantric
See also
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Tantra (disambiguation)
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