What is the meaning of Tantra?

noun

  • Any of a fairly recent class of Hindu or Buddhist religious literature concerned with ritual acts of body and speech and mind.
  • 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.
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