"... equal taste ( S: samarasa ; T: ro-mnyam ) The yogic practices and visualization exercises of Buddhist tantra are extremely complex, but underlying them is a single experience of things as they are.

In the Tattvasamgraha tantra ( c 7th century ), one of the most important tantras of the Buddhist Yoga Tantra Class, the ankusha figures in the visualization of one of the retinue.

The Kalachakra tantra prophesies a world within which ( religious ) conflict is prevalent.

* Kriyayoga, action tantra, which emphasizes ritual ;

* Charyayoga, performance tantra, which emphasizes meditation ;

* Anuttarayogatantra, highest yoga tantra, which is further divided into " mother ", " father " and " non-dual " tantras.

In Ayurveda, tantra and Tibetan medicine " praṇā vāyu " is the basic vāyu ( wind, air ) from which all the other vāyus arise.

The Gandavyuha Sutra is thought to be the source of a cult of Vairocana that later gave rise to the Mahāvairocana-abhisaṃbodhi tantra, which in turn became one of two central texts in Shingon Buddhism and is included in the Tibetan canon as a carya class tantra.

There is also a forehead centre above the third eye, which corresponds to the position of Manas, known as the Wind Wheel, which is one of the 10 chakras in the Mahayoga tantra traditions.

The most advanced class of tantra is the Anuttarayoga tantra, which focus on mental transformation and less on ritual actions.

The Stanzas of Dzyan from which Madame Blavatsky claimed to have gotten the information in The Secret Doctrine are believed by some scholars to have been a mistranslation of words Kalachakra tantra ( rGyud-sde in Tibetan ).

it is a form of divine sublimation of spiritual energy obtained from meditation of female divine goddess, clearly an aspect originated from sri vidya an ancient tantra tradition ( daksheenmargee tantra ) which was more developed by adi shankaracharya in India books references might give some idea because it is totally described in oral tradition by guru to his followers no written text strictly agama shashtra and transformed through shaktipaat to the kind fellow of tantra tradition. no vammargee rituals are performed during white tantra practices.

In 1971 Tantra Yoga Panorama was published in which the concepts of tantra were outlined as applicable to the needs of today's society.

In the Kagyu traditions by which the six yogas were first brought to Tibet, abhiṣeka into at least one anuttarayoga tantra system ( generally Cakrasaṃvara and / or Vajrayogini / Vajravarāhi ) and practice of its utpatti-krama are the bases for practice of the six yogas ; there is no particular empowerment for the six yogas themselves.

Tantric texts such as the 10th century Kalikapurana and 15th century Yogini tantra suggest that worship of this goddess is radically non-dual in nature and of the vamachara, or " left-hand path ", which includes the use of forbidden substances ( such as panchamakara ) and practices designed to transcend desire and personal ego.

In Shakta tantra, which is also associated with the Earth, the plane in which karma is expressed.

The Tibetan tantra entitled the " All-Creating King " ( Kunjed Gyalpo Tantra ) also emphasizes how Buddhist realization lies beyond the range of discursive / verbal thought and is ultimately mysterious.

The Tantric tradition does offer two important definitions of what constitutes a tantra and why it is named such.

The second traditional definition comes from the 10th century Tantric scholar Rāmakaṇṭha, who belonged to the dualist school called the Śaiva Siddhānta: A tantra is a divinely revealed body of teachings, explaining what is necessary and what is a hindrance in the practice of the worship of God ; and also describing the specialized initiation and purification ceremonies that are the necessary prerequisites of Tantric practice.

In the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, it is claimed that the historical Shakyamuni Buddha taught tantra, but that since these are ' secret ' teachings, confined to the guru / disciple relationship, they were generally written down long after the Buddha's other teachings, the Pali Canon and the Mahayana sutras.

The symbolism is associated with Anuttarayoga tantra where the male figure is usually linked to compassion ( Karuṇā ) and skillful means ( upāya-kauśalya ), and the female partner to insight ( Prajñā ).

Radha's relationship with Krishna is given in further detail within texts such as the Brahma Vaivarta Purana, Garga Samhita and Brihad Gautamiya tantra.

Tantric foreplay is the first step in the lovemaking session, according to the tantra principles.

Staring at each other while in a cross-legged position and touching the other's hand palms is a usual foreplay tactic used by tantra practitioners.

The symbolism is associated with Anuttarayoga tantra where the male figure is usually linked to compassion () and skillful means ( upāya-kauśalya ), and the female partner to ' insight ' ( prajñā ).

Initiations or ritual empowerments are necessary before the student is permitted to practise a particular tantra.

This is combined with the yogas of highest yoga tantra deities such as Guhyasamāja, Cakrasaṃvara, Yamāntaka and Kālacakra, where the key focus is the direct experience of the indivisible union of bliss and emptiness.

The term is mentioned with increasing frequency as Buddhist tantra developed further, particularly in the Yogatantras, where it appears in Tattvasaṁgraha and the Vajraśekhara-tantra.

Odier is also a teacher of tantra, claiming in his book Tantric Quest, and in his teaching, to have experienced a mystical initiation from a tantric dakini, Lalita Devi, in Kashmir.

The tantra literature, however, claims that the Mantrayana leads one to Buddhahood in one single life.

The Mahavairocana-abhisambodhi tantra became one of the two central texts in Shingon Buddhism and was included in the Tibetan canon as a tantra of the carya class.

However, one scholar describes the tantra divisions of some editions of the Tibetan scriptures as including Śravakayāna, Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna texts ( see Buddhist texts ).

It is a tantra textbook, giving instructions on Puja and offerings, many yantras, almost one to each shloka ; describes tantric ways of performing devotion connected to each specific shloka ; and details the results ensuing therefrom.

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.

Fragments of the original tantra have survived, the most significant fragment " Sekkodesha " has been commented upon the Maha Siddha Naropa.

For example, the most famous instance of consort yoga in Tibetan tantra involved its founder, the Indian Mahasiddha Padmasambhava and Yeshe Tsogyal, a Tibetan princess and yogini.

* Mahamaya-tantra, " Great Maya tantra ", a Vajrayana Buddhist Tantra & meditational deity

For example, the tantra sections of the Tibetan Buddhist canon of texts sometimes include material not usually thought of as tantric outside the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, such as the Heart Sutra and even versions of some material found in the Pali Canon.

" However, she said had she known that Trungpa began having sexual relations with women at age thirteen, she would not have declined, considering that in the higher stages of Tibetan Buddhist tantra, sexual relations ( especially with tertöns ) are a means of enhancing spiritual insights.

Most Tibetan Buddhist artforms are related to the practice of Vajrayana or Buddhist tantra.

The Outer Wheel of Time: Vajrayana Buddhist cosmology in the Kalacakra tantra, a dissertation 1987, dissertation.

But the additional dominating presence of the Vajrayana ( or Buddhist tantra ) may have had an overriding importance in the artistic culture.

Most of the typical Tibetan Buddhist art can be seen as part of the practice of tantra.

It is also the first stage of the six-branch yoga ( ṣaḍaṅgayoga ) of the Buddhist Kālacakra tantra, where it refers to the withdrawal of the five senses from external objects to be replaced by the mentally created senses of an enlightened deity.

In particular, in the nineteenth century lamas of the Rime movement, particularly the great scholar Ju Mipham, began to " create a systematic interweaving of native shamanism, oral epic, and Buddhist tantra, alchemical Taoism, Dzogchen, and the strange, vast Kalachakra tantra ," and windhorse was increasingly given Buddhist undertones and used in Buddhist contexts.

But the additional dominating presence of the Vajrayana ( or Buddhist tantra ) may have had an overriding importance in the artistic culture.

Most of the typical Tibetan Buddhist art can be seen as part of the practice of tantra.

In Buddhist tantra, actual ejaculation is very much a taboo, as the main goal of the sexual practice is to use the sexual energy towards achieving full enlightenment, rather than ordinary pleasure.

He received teachings from the tutor of Lobsang Yeshi, the Abbot of Gyumey Monastery and also from the Abbot of Shalu Monastery, Ngawang Yonten on all the major Buddhist philosophical treatises and became a master in both sutra and tantra.