Tantrism is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TANTRISM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a school of Buddhism incorporating Hindu and pagan elements
• teaching of tantra
• movement within Buddhism combining elements of Hinduism and paganism
• 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
ADJECTIVE:
• relating to or involving the doctrines or principles of the Hindu or Buddhist tantras, in particular the use of mantras, meditation, yoga, and ritual

Words related to TANTRISM

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Words that contain TANTRISM

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How to use TANTRISM in a sentence

• In Bihar from the eighth century onwards the influence of Tantrism was powerful and disastrous.
• Thus the Chinese inscriptions of Bodh-Gaya though they speak at length of the three bodies of Buddha show no signs of Tantrism.
• But Tantrism is analogous not so much to justification by faith as to sacramental ritual.
• Whereas Christianity is sometimes accused of restricting its higher code to Church and Sundays, the opposite may be said of Tantrism.
• It has an unfortunate but distinct later phase known in Sanskrit as Mantrayâna and Vajrayâna but generally described by Europeans as Tantrism.
• Asanga founded the school known as Yogâcâra and many authorities ascribe to him the introduction of magical practices and Tantrism.
• I treat of Tantrism and Sâktism in another chapter.
• It is not until a late period of the Pâla dynasty that he mentions the Kâlacakra which is the most extravagant form of Buddhist Tantrism.
• More than any other form of mixed belief it obliterated essential differences, for Buddhist Tantrism and Sivaite Tantrism are merely two varieties of Tantrism.
• It would be better to describe this literature and worship as Sâktism and to use Tantrism for a tendency in doctrine and ceremonial which otherwise has no special name.
• It would be convenient to distinguish Sâktism and Tantrism, as I have already suggested.
• Yet in strange contrast to these practical talents, a certain innate devilry made them exaggerate all the magical, terrifying and demoniac elements to be found in Indian Tantrism.
• Three characteristics of Tibetan Tantrism, which are all more or less Indian, may be mentioned.
• It remains to say a word of the numerous goddesses who play an important part in Tibetan Buddhism, as in Hindu Tantrism.
• I doubt if Lhasa and Tantrism are further from the teaching of Gotama than the Papacy, the Inquisition, and the religion of the German Emperor, from the teaching of Christ.

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