Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The doctrines of the tantras.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The system of doctrines and rites taught in the tantras.
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- noun movement within Buddhism combining elements of Hinduism and paganism
- noun doctrine of enlightenment as the realization of the oneness of one's self and the visible world; combines elements of Hinduism and paganism including magical and mystical elements like mantras and mudras and erotic rites; especially influential in Tibet
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Examples
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Buddhism, but it was doubtless superior in discipline and coherency to the native superstitions mixed with debased tantrism, which it replaced.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Charles Eliot 1896
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It was shivlings all around then - the post-Shankaracharya strategy to thwart Buddhism-and a return to tantrism.
unknown title 2009
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