tantric
Britishadjective
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These alleged activities, purportedly carried out under the pretense of tantric yoga teachings, formed a part of an intricate system of financial exploitation and control, the official said.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2023
In some cases, “witches” are selected by travelling tantric healers or quacks, who make a living from selling cures and conducting purification ceremonies.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 28, 2017
On the one hand, tantric yoga served to increasingly refine consciousness as a means to achieving divinized embodiment or, in other words, becoming a god while remaining in the body.
From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2016
Just sturdy verbs, a casual flowing power, tantric masculine reticence, a melancholy sense of a sidewise-drifting life, little humor.
From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2015
For one the religious life of India is fundamentally monotheistic and Vishnuite: for another philosophic Sivaism is its crown and quintessence: a third maintains with equal truth that all forms of Hinduism are tantric.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Sir Charles Eliot
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