tantrism

Eastern traditions within taoism and tantrism also incorporated sexual rituals.

These bodies are constructed through a form of Tantra called White tantrism.

Robert Brown notes that the term tantrism is a construction of western scholarship, not a concept that comes from the religious system itself.

Most seem to be modeled on religious images associated with tantrism, whose practice involves goddess worship and sexual rites.

Subjects like philosophy, grammar, metaphysics, Indian logic etc. were taught here, but the most important branch of learning was tantrism.

Tantrism originated in the early centuries CE and developed into a fully articulated tradition by the end of the Gupta period.

The Sanskrit Tradition and Tantrism.

Mystical songs from kashmirian tantrism (Lalla)

Tantrism: Its Secret Principles and Practices.

His investigations into the "feudal mind" and "economic and social basis of tantrism" are thought-provoking, opening up new lines of inquiry.

In Ritual and Speculation in Early Tantrism.

Gamelan Stories: Tantrism, Islam, and Aesthetics in Central Java.

Chang also claims that Tibetan yoga involves reconciliation of apparent polarities, such as prana and mind, relating this to theoretical implications of tantrism.

This era also saw the emergence of Hindu tantrism and the beginnings of Esoteric Buddhism and the siddha traditions.

The Secret of the Three Cities: An Introduction to Hindu Shakta Tantrism University of Chicago Press, 1990.

Tantrism contributed esoteric techniques of meditation and a repertoire of sacred icons, phrases, and gestures that easily lent themselves to pragmatic (rather than transcendental) and magical interpretation.

Unike his brother Pratap Singh Shah (r. 1775-1777) who was a luxury loving and indulgent king more interested in tantrism; Bahadur remained a disciplined and farsighted statesman.

And understandably, despite Kripal's protestations to the contrary in Secret Talk: The Politics of Scholarship in Hindu Tantrism, Kali's Child is colonialism updated.

In Hinduism the term dakini often has negative associations although in Hindu tantrism dakinis are the guardians of the deeper mysteries of the self, through whom the secrets of inner transformation are revealed.

Some scholars assert that it was imported from Tibet and India, perhaps in the eighth century when Padmasambhava introduced his lineagues of Buddhism, tantrism and mysticism into Tibet and the Himalaya.

Tantrism includes within its fold Buddhist and Jaina tantras suggesting that Hindu, Jaina and Buddhist tantrism developed separately after arising from common sources of Tantric elements.

Kaula or Kula describes a type of Hindu tantrism reckoned by Gavin Flood to derive from Kapalika or "cremation ground" asceticism, and to divide into northern, eastern, southern and western schools across the subcontinent.

The medical college at Chagpori (lchags po ri; "Iron Mountain") was designed for monastic scholars who would, after learning esoteric arts of medicine and tantrism, mostly remain in the monastery, serving the public as would other monk scholars and lamas.

Focuses of Monica Esposito's research were Ming and Qing Daoism, inner alchemy (neidan), the interaction between Daoism and Tantrism, Buddhism of the late imperial period, and Tibetan Buddhism (rDzogs chen).