tantra
pronunciation
How to pronounce tantra in British English:
UK [ˈtæntrə]
How to pronounce tantra in American English:
US ['tæntrə]
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- Noun:
- any of a fairly recent class of Hindu or Buddhist religious literature concerned with ritual acts of body and speech and mind
Word Origin
- tantra (n.)
- type of Hindu religious book, 1799, from Sanskrit tantram, literally "loom, warp," hence, figuratively, "groundwork, system, doctrine," from tan "to stretch, extend," from PIE root *ten- "to stretch, extend" (see tenet).
Example
- 1. Neither through veda nor through tantra nor the six darsanas .
- 2. I 'm joining a women 's tantra group this year .
- 3. It is not new in tibetan tantra that guru is to be identified with your yidam in this way .
- 4. Tantra : the art of conscious loving .
- 5. The tantra vision accepts everything .