Tantra, literally meaning " formula ", " method, or " way ", ( parallel to the Chinese Tao, which also means " the way " or " the method "), and also having the secondary meaning of " loom ", " thread " or " warp and woof " is the name scholars give to a style of religious ritual and meditation that arose in medieval India no later than the fifth century CE, and which came to influence all forms of Asian religious expression to a greater or lesser degree.

Tantra (, " loom, warp "; hence " principle, system, doctrine, theory ", from the verbal root " stretch, extend, expand ", and the suffix " instrument "), anglicised as tantrism or tantricism, is the name scholars give to a style of religious ritual and meditation that arose in medieval India no later than the fifth century CE, and which came to influence all forms of Indian religious expression to a greater or lesser degree.

Along with neighboring Sarpsborg, Fredrikstad forms the fifth largest city in Norway: Fredrikstad / Sarpsborg.

Attic Greek was the last dialect to retain this from older forms of Greek and the dual number had died out by the end of the fifth century before Christ.

Other forms of memory test might require contestants to remember a phrase or proverb and answer a series of questions about it ( e. g. " What was the fifth letter of the fourth word?

The earliest crucible forms derive from the sixth / fifth millennium B. C.

A horizontal wheel or segment of a wheel called a fifth wheel sometimes forms an extended support to prevent the carriage from tipping ; it consists of two parts rotating on each other about the kingbolt above the fore axle and beneath the body.

Nettl describes the music of the sparesly settled Great Basin, including most of desert Utah and Nevada ( Paiute, Ute, Shoshoni ) and some of southern Oregon ( Modoc and Klamath ), as " extremely simple ," featuring melodic ranges averaging just over a perfect fifth, many tetratonic scales, and short forms.

Dammam is the largest city in the Eastern Province and forms part of the greater Dammam metropolitan area along with Dhahran and Khobar, which together have a combined population of over 2, 500, 000. and the fifth largest in Saudi Arabia, after Riyadh, Jeddah, Mecca and Medina.

At the end of the fifth issue Mxyzptlk and his henchmen ( fellow teachers ) reveal their true forms while laughing at the chaos they have spawned.

Those who continue to observe earlier forms of the Roman Rite or of liturgies modelled on it refer to the fifth Sunday of Lent by one or other of its previous names.

The maths and science departments decided that pupils were finding the coursework ( which forms a fifth of the marks awarded in the national GCSE ) undemanding and tedious and so made the switch in 2005.

The E63 / 64 itself is based on the BMW E60, the latter which forms the fifth iteration of the 5 Series sedan.

It forms the fifth volume of his masterpiece, the twelve-volume sequence A Dance to the Music of Time, and was originally published in 1960.

Scotland does not, in general, have separate sixth form colleges ( or, indeed, the same concept of the terminal two years of secondary education as being distinct from the other time spent there ); as such, Scottish students who opt to remain in full-time education will typically remain in the same school for fifth, and possibly a sixth year ( the equivalent to the English lower-and upper-sixth forms ), studying Higher Grade and Advanced Higher qualifications.

The development of large scale hymnographic forms begins in the fifth century with the rise of the kontakion, a long and elaborate metrical sermon, reputedly of Syriac origin, which finds its acme in the work of St. Romanos the Melodist ( 6th century ).

The dating of the stone has been arrived at by two methods: first, the stone came from a securely stratified context in association with imported pottery of known types dating to the fifth / sixth centuries ; second, forms of certain letters noted on the slate appear in British inscribed stones from Scotland to Cornwall post-500 and are certainly known elsewhere from 6th century north Cornwall ( part of the kingdom of Dumnonia ).

The development of large scale hymnographic forms begins in the fifth century with the rise of the kontakion, a long and elaborate metrical sermon, which finds its acme in the work of St. Romanos the Melodos ( sixth century ).

It is the fifth letter of the Polish, Sorbian, Croatian, and Bosnian alphabets, as well as the Latin forms of Serbian and Montenegrin ( in some forms ).

Both of his forms appear in Dawn of Souls on the fifth level of Hellfire Chasm.

The Peasant War in Germany originally appeared in the fifth and sixth issues of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung-Revue, a political economic review edited by Karl Marx in Hamburg, and was later reissued in book forms.

A third major topic in the study of aesthetic judgments is how they are unified across art forms.

For example, the parent function y = 1 / x has a horizontal and a vertical asymptote, and occupies the first and third quadrant, and all of its transformed forms have one horizontal and vertical asymptote, and occupies either the 1st and 3rd or 2nd and 4th quadrant.

According to him, while the first two visions ( the alter-globalism and the anti-globalism ) represent the reconstructed forms of old and new left ideologies, respectively, in the context of current globalization, only the third one has shown the capacity to respond more effectively to the intellectual requirements of today ’ s global complexities.

Two thirds of the chemical elements occur on Earth only as compounds, and in the remaining third, often the compound forms of the element are most common.

Diencephalon elaborations include the subthalamus, hypothalamus, thalamus and epithalamus, and its cavity forms the third ventricle.

An example of a Latin noun declension is given below, using the singular forms of the word homo ( man ), which belongs to Latin's third declension.

The third pattern or category of dukkha refers to a basic unsatisfactoriness pervading all forms of life because all forms of life are impermanent and constantly changing.

* The third stratum is metalogical, what he called a " theory of all possible forms of theories.

However, with the appropriate reduction formula, every elliptic integral can be brought into a form that involves integrals over rational functions and the three Legendre canonical forms ( i. e. the elliptic integrals of the first, second and third kind ).

Most English personal pronouns have five forms ; in addition to the nominative and oblique case forms, the possessive case has both a determiner form ( such as my, our ) and a distinct independent form ( such as mine, ours ) ( with the exceptions that these are not distinct for the third person singular masculine car, it is his and that the third person singular neuter it does not have the possessive independent form ); and they have a distinct reflexive or intensive form ( such as myself, ourselves ).

Other forms of the word include groks ( present third person singular ), grokked ( past participle ) and grokking ( present participle ).

The three basic forms of price discrimination are first, second and third degree price discrimination.

Orans concludes that Freeman's basic criticisms, that Mead was duped by ceremonial virgin Fa ' apua ' a Fa ' amu ( who later swore to Freeman that she had played a joke on Mead ) were false for several reasons: first, Mead was well aware of the forms and frequency of Samoan joking ; second, she provided a careful account of the sexual restrictions on ceremonial virgins that correspond's to Fa ' apua ' a Fa ' auma ' a's account to Freeman, and third, that Mead's notes make clear that she had reached her conclusions about Samoan sexuality before meeting Fa ' apua ' a Fa ' amu.

" When the soul had overcome the third power, it went upwards and saw the fourth power, which took seven forms.

The Missouri River forms Lake Sakakawea, the third largest man-made lake in the United States, behind the Garrison Dam .< ref >

Modern English expresses noun classes through the third person singular personal pronouns he ( male person ), she ( female person ), and it ( object, abstraction, or animal ), and their other inflected forms.

The first is East Lizard Heathlands SSSI, the second is Caerthillian to Kennack SSSI and the third is West Lizard SSSI, of which the important wetland, Hayle Kimbro Pool, forms a part of.

** Ali Fethi Okyar forms a new government in Turkey ( third government ).

Aldington's poetry was associated with the Imagist group, and his poetry forms almost one third of the Imagists ' inaugural anthology Des Imagistes ( 1914 ).

The section advocates rebelling against authority in all forms, governmental and corporate. The third section is “ Liberate !” with the chapter headings: Fuck New York, Fuck Chicago, Fuck Los Angeles, and Fuck San Francisco.

Tetum does not have separate masculine and feminine forms of the third person singular, hence nia ( similar to dia in Indonesian and Malay ) can mean either " he ", " she " or " it ".