The World of Tantra

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TANTRAThe World of Tantra

The tantric literature is so vast that it is almost impossible to study it all, let alone practice a significant fraction of it - infact it is said that it would take even a true adept a thousand lifetimes to practice all the tantric disciplines.

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The texts are written in Sanskrit (with the exception of approximately a thousand texts in Pali, Prakrita, Tibetan, Hindi, and Bengali)and represent the cumulative knowledge of masters over millennial.

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We will take a look at the three main schools of tantra and delve into the distinctions between the left-hand and right-hand paths of the kaula school in coming posts, but for now what matters is to remember that all tantric texts and the techniques they describe have one characteristic in common: they adopt an integrative approach to sadhana, with the objective of making the best use of all possible resources, within and without.

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