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Tantric and contribution
His most popular and influential book titled The Serpent Power: The Secrets of Tantric and Shaktic Yoga, became a major contribution of the time to the appreciation of Indian philosophy and spirituality and the source of many early Western occult appropriations of tantra and kundalini practice.

Tantric and Tibetan
Today, it is Tibetan Buddhism and various forms of Hinduism that show the strongest Tantric influence, as well as the international postural yoga movement and most forms of American alternative spirituality grouped under the New Age rubric.
The Wheel of Time or Kalachakra is a Tantric deity that is associated with Tibetan Tantric Buddhism, which encompasses all four main schools of Sakya, Nyingma, Kagyu and Gelug, and is especially important within the lesser-known Jonang tradition.
Vajrayana ( Devanagari: वज ् रय ा न ; Oriya: ବଜ ୍ ରଯ ା ନ, Tibetan: ར ྡོ་ ར ྗེ་ ཐ ེ ག ་ པ ་, rdo rje theg pa ; Mongolian: Очирт хөлгөн, Ochirt Hölgön, Chinese: 密宗, mì zōng ) is also known as Tantric Buddhism, Tantrayāna, Mantrayāna, Secret Mantra, Esoteric Buddhism and the Diamond Vehicle.
In the generation stage of Deity Yoga, the practitioner visualizes the " Four Purities " ( Tibetan: yongs su dag pa bzhi ; yongs dag bzhi ) which define the principal Tantric methodology of Deity Yoga that distinguishes it from the rest of Buddhism:
The Dunhuang also contains Tibetan Tantric manuscripts.
Dalton and Schaik ( 2007, revised ) provide an excellent online catalogue listing 350 Tibetan Tantric Manuscripts
According to Tibetan sources, Atiśa was ordained into the Mahasamghika lineage at the age of twenty-eight by the Abbot Śīlarakṣita and studied almost all Buddhist and non-Buddhist schools of his time, including teachings from Vishnu, Shiva, Tantric Hinduism and other beliefs.
The usage and meaning of the term mahāmudrā evolved over the course of hundreds of years of Indian and Tibetan history, and as a result, the term may refer variously to " a ritual hand-gesture, one of a sequence of ' seals ' in Tantric practice, the nature of reality as emptiness, a meditation procedure focusing on the nature of mind, an innate blissful gnosis cognizing emptiness nondually, or the supreme attainment of buddhahood at the culmination of the Tantric path.
Chhinnamasta is popular in Tantric and Tibetan Buddhism, where she is called Chinnamunda (" she with a severed-head ") – the severed-head form of goddess Vajrayogini or Vajravarahi – a ferocious form of the latter, who is depicted similar to Chhinnamasta.
Dhardo Rinpoche was educated in the traditional Tibetan monastic style, taking his Geshe Degree and graduating at the Lharmapa level at Drepung Monastery, and doing further study at Gyud-med Tantric College.
This position is considered very important in Tibetan Tantric practices of deity yoga, where the guru or deity is often visualised above the crown, and then bestowing blessings below ( for example in the Vajrasattva purification meditation ).
Tibetan exegesis of the mantra tends to look back on it from a Tantric point of view.
More specifically, Tibetan Buddhism contains Tantric Buddhism, also known as Vajrayana Buddhism for its common symbolism of the vajra, the diamond thunderbolt ( known in Tibetan as the dorje ).
Blending easily with elements of Shinto practice and the pre-Buddhist folk traditions of sangaku-shinkō-“ spiritual practices connected with sacred mountains ”, these imported teachings, combining Chinese Tantric Buddhism, Chinese Yin-Yang magic, Taoism and, at a later date, Tibetan Vajrayāna Buddhism, evolved to become the esoteric Japanese tradition that is Mikkyō.
The interest of western collectors of Tibetan rugs was particularly piqued by tiger rugs, in part because of their associations with Tantric meditation ; many Tibetan tiger rugs were gifts for lamas in the monasteries.
In Tibetan Buddhism, Mañjuśrī manifests in a number of different Tantric forms.
Padmasambhava ( flourished eighth century AD ), also called Guru Rimpoche, Tibetan Slob-dpon ( teacher ), or Padma ‘ byung-gnas ( lotus born ) legendary Indian Buddhist mystic who introduced Tantric Buddhism to Tibet and is credited with establishing the first buddhist monastery there. According to tradition, Padmasambhava was native to Udyana ( now Swat in Pakistan ).
The scholar Donald Lopez questions whether the ' initiations ' that Govinda received are to be understood in the traditional Tibetan way of the term, i. e., as an empowerment by a Lama to carry out Tantric rituals or meditations.
Tibetan Buddhism is often conflated with Vajrayana or Tantric Buddhism, but this is imprecise, as Shingon and other forms of East Asian Buddhism also practice tantra.
In < i > Iranian Themes in Tibetan Tantric Culture: The Ḍākinī < i >, David Templeman points out the links between dakinis as found in Tibetan Buddhism and Urgyen which is in what is now Northern Pakistan.

Tantric and Buddhism
Eastern variants of Gupta called Nāgarī are first attested from the 8th century CE ; from c. 1200 CE these gradually replaced Siddham, which survived as a vehicle for Tantric Buddhism in East Asia, and Sharada, which remained in parallel use in Kashmir.
The historical significance of the Tantric method lies in the fact that it impacted every major Indian religion extant in the early medieval period ( c. 500-1200 CE ): thus the Hindu sects of Shaivism, Shaktism and Vaishnavism, as well as Buddhism and Jainism all developed a well-documented body of Tantric practices and related doctrines.
For example, what scholars call Tantric Shaivism was known to its practitioners as the, Tantric Buddhism has the indigenous name of the Vajrayana, and Tantric Vaishnavism was known as the.
The Palas were followers of the Mahayana and Tantric schools of Buddhism.
The dialectical method of truth-seeking is evident throughout the traditions of Madhyamaka, Yogacara, and Tantric Buddhism.
According to some traditions Tantric Buddhism first developed in Uddiyana, a country which was divided into two kingdoms Sambaḷa and Lankapuri.
From the 7th century onwards many popular religious elements of heterogeneous nature were incorporated into Mahayana Buddhism which finally resulted in the origin of Vajrayana, Kalachakrayana and Sahajayana Tantric Buddhism.
These new Tantric cults of Buddhism introduced Mantra, Mudra and Mandala along with six tantric Abhicharas ( practices ) such as Marana ( Death ), Stambhana, Sammohana, Vidvesan, Uchchatana and Vajikarana.
In Tantric Buddhism, yab-yum is the male deity in sexual union with his female consort.
The symbolism of union and sexual polarity is a central teaching in Tantric Buddhism, especially in Tibet.
The symbolism of union and sexual polarity is a central teaching in Tantric Buddhism, especially in Tibet.
Tantric Buddhism is itself an outcrop of Tantrism, advanced techniques of which included ' the ritual sex act ( Maithuna ) which was a feature of Tantric yoga '.
Adityawarman, a follower of Tantric Buddhism with ties to the Singhasari and Majapahit kingdoms of Java, is believed to have founded a kingdom in the Minangkabau highlands at Pagaruyung and ruled between 1347 and 1375, most likely to control the local gold trade.

Tantric and became
Nalanda University in eastern India became a center for the development of Vajrayana theory, although it is likely that the university followed, rather than led, the early Tantric movement.
Tantric Buddhism became important in Tibet at this point.
About three hundred years after the Kama Sutra became popular, some of the love-making positions described in it were reinterpreted in a Tantric way.
In Tantric Buddhism this list was incorporated into ritual practices, and later became enshrined in mantras.
He became the disciple of a Tantric, a priest of temple at Rameswaram.
He became a disciple of Agamavisha, a Tantric scholar and yogi.
Ramprasad later became the disciple of Krishnananda Agamavagisha, a Tantric yogi and scholar.
Bruce LaFrance was working with Whitener on a side project, Interchange and Ferreira's State Of The Art project which eventually became the new Tantric.
Certain aspects of the Bka ´ brgyud teachings on mahāmudrā, such as the possibility of a sudden liberating realization or the possibility that a beginner may attain mahāmudrā even without Tantric initiation, became a highly controversial issue in the 13th century.

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