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Magicians, Sorcerers and Witches: Considering Pretantric, Non-sectarian Sources of Tantric Practices

Religions, 2017
Most models on the origins of tantrism have been either inattentive to or dismissive of non-literate, non-sectarian ritual systems. Groups of magicians, sorcerers or witches operated in India since before the advent of tantrism and continued to perform ...
Ronald M. Davidson
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Tantric Massage

, 2022
The tantric massage therapy is an asian strategy, thought about to be a distinct manner for relaxation, self-knowledge which helps you find the secrets of intimacy, interaction and also total consistency with your partner or even by yourself.
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Enacting Perfection: Buddhajñānāpāda's Vision of a Tantric Buddhist World [PDF]

, 2019
This dissertation focuses on the life, writings, and thought of the Indian Buddhist yogin and tantric exegete Buddhajñānapāda, remembered as the founder of the Jñānapāda School of tantric theory and practice.
Dalton, Catherine
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Arguing over the Buddhist Pedigree of Tibetan Medicine: A Case Study of Empirical Observation and Traditional Learning in 16th- and 17th-Century Tibet

Religions, 2019
This article examines the relationship between the practice and theory of medicine and Buddhism in premodern Tibet. It considers a polemical text composed by the 16th−17th-century Tibetan physician and tantric Buddhist expert Sokdokpa Lodrö ...
James Duncan Gentry
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The Persistence of Habit: Tantric Engagements with Dharmakīrti’s View of Yogic Perception

Journal of Contemplative Studies
Dharmakīrti’s view of yogic perception (yogipratyakṣa) and mental cultivation (bhāvanā) has generated a good deal of discussion—in Dharmakīrti’s text tradition, in the works of its various critics, and in the contemporary study of Buddhist philosophy ...
Davey K. Tomlinson
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Tantra and the limits of female potential in the sexual response

Revista Científica Arbitrada de la Fundación MenteClara, 2019
This article explains explains some of the novel findings on female sexuality, ESR and prolonged–expanded orgasms, in comparison with the old Tantric and Taoist philosophies.
Ümit H. Sayin
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Tantric Traditions in Transmission and Translation

, 2016
Tantric traditions in both Buddhism and Hinduism are thriving throughout Asia and in Asian diasporic communities around the world, yet they have been largely ignored by Western scholars until now.
Gray, David B., Overbey, Ryan Richard
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Gopīnāth Kavirāj e la scienza solare

Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2019
This paper outlines the richness and complexity of Gopīnāth Kavirāj’s (1887-1976) contribution to the Indological studies, in particular in the field of Tantric studies.
Sara Bianchi
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Anthropology of the Profane

Religions
Durkheimian anthropology has so insisted on the primacy of the sacred that one scarcely pauses to think on what role the profane may play in the study of religion.
Arpita Roy
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Vajrayāna Art and Iconography

Zygon, 2000
Iconographic imagery in the Indo‐Tibetan Buddhist Tantric (i.e., Vajrayāna) tradition is replete with polymorphic symbolic forms. Tantric texts themselves are multivalent, addressing astronomy, astrology, cosmology, history, embryology, physiology ...
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