Tantra

//ˈtʌntɹə// name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A Hindu or Buddhist religious or esoteric text.
  2. 2
    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 wordnet
  3. 3
    any of a fairly recent class of Hindu or Buddhist religious literature concerned with ritual acts of body and speech and mind wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The esoteric traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism that developed in India from the middle of the 1st millennium CE onwards. Hinduism

Synonyms

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tantrism

Etymology

From Sanskrit तन्त्र (tantra), from Proto-Indo-European *ten-tlo- /*tn̥-tlo-, from *ten- (“to stretch, extend”) with the suffix *-tlom denoting instruments. Doublet of tar (“string instrument”).

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