Tantra

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title: Tantra
text: Tantra is an esoteric yogic tradition that developed on the Indian subcontinent from the middle of the 1st millennium CE onwards in both Hinduism and Buddhism. The term tantra, in the Indian traditions, also means any systematic broadly applicable "text, theory, system, method, instrument, technique or practice". A key feature of these traditions is the use of mantras, and thus they are commonly referred to as Mantramārga in Hinduism or Mantrayāna and Guhyamantra in Buddhism. In Buddhism, the Va
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description: Esoteric traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantra
date created: 2001-12-27T14:18:43Z
date modified: 2024-09-09T22:45:42Z
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