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.

The holder of a Hellenic leitourgia was not taxed a specific sum, but entrusted with a particular ritual, which could be performed with greater or lesser magnificence.

He has also written many lesser manuals called Sudhanidhis treating Prayaschitta ( expiation ), Yajnatantra ( ritual ), Purushartha ( aims of human endeavour ), Ayurveda ( Indian traditional medicine ), Sangit Sara ( The essence of music ), Prayaschitra, Alankara, and Dhatuvrddhi ( grammar )

In some parts of Argentina, tereré is seen as a lesser form of mate, and its drinking hardly ever follows the traditional drinking mate ritual.

Traditions of both oral narrative as well as ritual are in general a lesser part of Oneida culture today than they were up until post-colonial times, but as the clan leaders indicate, the culture is valued, and the Oneida language is integral in enacting that culture ( Elm & Antone vii ).

Many traits of human intelligence, such as empathy, theory of mind, mourning, ritual, and the use of symbols and tools, are already apparent in great apes although in lesser sophistication than in humans.

is the biological family of carnivorous and omnivorous mammals that includes domestic dogs, wolves, foxes, jackals, coyotes, and many other lesser known extant and extinct dog-like mammals.

It refers primarily to the erudite, shorter hexameter poems of the Hellenistic period and the similar works composed at Rome from the age of the neoterics ; to a lesser degree, the term includes some poems of the English Renaissance, particularly those influenced by Ovid.

This includes literature written in Germany, Austria, the German part of Switzerland, and to a lesser extent works of the German diaspora.

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This includes the widespread use of folk instruments and, to a lesser extent, traditional singing styles ( for example, Dutch Heidevolk, Danish Sylvatica and Spanish Stone of Erech ).

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Unlike many other categories, such as opiates, which are established according to pharmaceutical properties, club drugs are a " category of convenience ", which includes drugs ranging from phenethylamines such as the popular ecstasy to the lesser known 2C-B, inhalants ( nitrous oxide and amyl nitrite " poppers "), stimulants ( such as amphetamines and cocaine ), and hallucinogens such as LSD and psilocybin mushrooms.

Book five was not published until nine years after Rabelais's death and includes much material that is clearly borrowed ( such as from Lucian's True History and Francesco Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili ) or of lesser quality than the previous books.

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The term not only includes the deep-dredged ship-navigable parts of an estuary or river leading to port facilities, but also to lesser channels accessing boat port-facilities such as marinas.

One example includes arranging a team composed of skilled or known players against a team with members of lesser skill.

Religious music includes the chants, rhythms and instruments used in rituals of the above-mentioned religious currents, while profane music focuses largely on rumba, guaguanco and comparsa ( carnival music ) as well as several lesser styles such as the tumba francesa.

Today, there is a shopping district along 35th Avenue NE, with concentrations of stores at NE 75th Street and NE 85th Street, including a supermarket at each of these corners ; a lesser concentration near NE 95th Street includes the Fiddler's Inn bar, a live music venue, one of relatively few this far from the center of the city.

To a lesser degree, military classism also includes the branch of service to which the military parent belongs.

It includes a tabletop tactical wargame, a role-playing game and a lesser known combat card game ( Heavy Gear Fighter ).

* Ethiopic Collectio Monastica, a lesser known work that includes many sayings of the Desert Fathers not included in the Apophthegmata Patrum

Moncayo's best-known work continues to be his colorful orchestral fantasy Huapango ( 1941 ), but his production also includes many other pieces of a high quality, notwithstanding their lesser fame.

Darija has acquired the majority of its vocabulary from Berber ( Tamazight ) language, however it also includes significant overtones of Arabic as well as extensive borrowings from French, and to a lesser extent Castilian Spanish and even Italian ( primarily in Libya ) – the languages of the historical colonial occupiers of the Maghreb.

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In Mongolian ( Baga Holgon ) term for Hinayana also means " small " or " lesser " vehicle, while in Tibetan there are at least two words to designate the term, theg chung () meaning " small vehicle ", and theg dman () meaning " inferior vehicle " or " inferior spiritual approach ".

Related modern words are the English " probe ", " probation ", and " probability ", the Spanish probar ( to smell or taste, or ( lesser use ) touch or test ), Italian provare ( to try ), and the German probieren ( to try ).

The vocabulary of Manglish consists of words originating from English, Malay, Hokkien, Mandarin, Cantonese, Tamil, and to a lesser extent various other European languages, while Manglish syntax resembles southern varieties of Chinese.

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Conventions for the capitalization of titles and other classes of words vary between languages, and to a lesser extent between different style guides.

This usage of religious words to express profanity is also present but to a lesser extent in Acadian French, mostly spoken in the Maritime provinces east of Quebec.

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Upanayana has one more meaning, derived from Sanskrit words: Upa ( lesser )+ nayanam ( to lead ), meaning " lesser leading along ".

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This recognizes that all individuals may suddenly and unexpectedly lose control when words are spoken or events occur but, again, states differ on the extent to which this should be allowed to excuse liability or merely mitigate to a lesser offense such as manslaughter.

In early writings there was no need to define it precisely, since he imagined that, beside the Valar, " many lesser spirits ... both great and small " had entered the Eä upon its creation ; and such talking and sapient creatures as the Eagles or Huan the Hound, in Tolkien's own words, " have been rather lightly adopted from less ' serious ' mythologies ".

Typically, words from Standard German or Latin are pronounced with aspirated, too, which is not or only to a lesser extent done in other dialects.

They frequently borrow words from French ( in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia ), Spanish ( in Morocco ) and Italian ( in Libya and to a lesser extent Tunisia ) and conjugate them according to the rules of Arabic with some exceptions ( like passive tense for example ).

Their continuity has been broken by the spread of Arabic, and to a lesser extent by the Zenati group of Northern Berber, which shares certain innovations not found in the surrounding languages, notably a softening of k to sh and an absence of a-in certain words, such as " hand " ( afus vs.

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This was elaborated by these poets under the direction of Frederick II and combines many traits typical of the Sicilian, and to a lesser, but not negligible extent, Apulian dialects and other southern dialects, with many words of Latin and French origin.

In Southeast Asia, languages such as Thai and Lao contain many loan words from Sanskrit, as do Khmer to a lesser extent, through Sinified hybrid Sanskrit.

Other Austronesian languages, such as traditional Malay, modern Indonesian, also derive much of their vocabulary from Sanskrit, albeit to a lesser extent, with a large proportion of words being derived from Arabic.

( DMT is the only song with ( English ) lyrics, even though they are so heavily tweaked with effects, it's hard to understand that there are actually words at first ) Many other lesser known psybient songs may involve a psychedelic song title, and eastern style singing, but lyrics for a full song are still pretty rare, ( Shpongle's Once Upon the Sea Of Blissful Awareness being the first ( and possibly only ) to incorporate a full song into psybient history and any psybient track with vocals are mainly a few short lines repeated mainly for musical effect and less for actual song effect.

The fifth anniversary edition of included a new preface which included these words: This ‘ Of the many battles I could have written about, I chose to focus on eight which, to a greater or lesser degree, I face myself ’.