Tantra Definition

tŭntrə, tăn-
noun
A form of yoga that teaches the attainment of ecstasy through esoteric, sometimes erotic, techniques.
Webster's New World
Any of a comparatively recent class of Hindu or Buddhist religious literature written in Sanskrit and concerned with powerful ritual acts of body, speech, and mind.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
  • Tantrism

Other Word Forms of Tantra

Noun

Singular:
tantra
Plural:
tantras

Origin of Tantra

  • Sanskrit tantram doctrine, loom ten- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Sanskrit तन्त्र (tantra)

    From Wiktionary

Tantra Sentence Examples

  • We discussed sexuality on our first "date" and made a decision to explore the sexual aspects of Tantra together before we had even touched.

  • The origin of them is undoubtedly to be found in the Pancha Tantra, or Five Sections, an extensive body of early fables or apologues.

  • The nauseous taste repelled even the self-sacrificing industry of Burnouf, when he found the later Tantra books to be as immoral as they are absurd.

  • These volumes contain about a dozen works of the oldest school of Buddhism, the Hinayana, and about 300 works, mostly very short, belonging to the Tantra school.

  • The long period of depression seems not to have been without a beneficial influence on the persecuted Buddhist church, for these teachers are reported to have placed the Tantra system more in the background, and to have adhered more strongly to the purer forms of the Mahayana development of the ancient faith.

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Words Starting With

TTATAN

Words Ending With

ARATRA

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