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tantra
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun tantra has 2 senses
- tantra(n = noun.communication) Array - any of a fairly recent class of Hindu or Buddhist religious literature concerned with ritual acts of body and speech and mind; Array is a kind of sanskrit literature
- tantra(n = noun.cognition) tantrism - doctrine of enlightenment as the realization of the oneness of one's self and the visible world; combines elements of Hinduism and paganism including magical and mystical elements like mantras and mudras and erotic rites; especially influential in Tibet; Array is a kind of buddhism
CIDE DICTIONARY
tantra, n. [Skr.].
A ceremonial treatise related to Puranic and magic literature; esp., one of the sacred works of the worshipers of Sakti. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
tantra, n. any of a class of Hindu or Buddhist mystical and magical writings.
Derivative
tantric adj. tantrism n. tantrist n.
Etymology
Skr., = loom, groundwork, doctrine f. tan stretch
ROGET THESAURUS
tantra
Pseudo-Revelation
N pseudo-revelation, the Koran, the Alcoran, Lyking, Vedas, Zendavesta, Avesta, Sastra, Shastra, Tantra, Upanishads, Purana, Edda, Book of Mormon, Gautama, Buddha, Zoroaster, Confucius, Bab-ed-Din, Mohammed, golden calf, Baal, Moloch, Dagon.
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