tantra

Other forms: tantras

Definitions of tantra
  1. noun
    any of a fairly recent class of Hindu or Buddhist religious literature concerned with ritual acts of body and speech and mind
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    type of:
    Sanskrit literature
    Hindu literature written in Sanskrit
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