– Hugh Urban Two of the most important figures in the reimagining of Tantra were Bengali – Gopinath Kaviraj and Narendra Nath Bhattacharya,

    – Dr. N H Chandrashekara Swami Pandit Gopinath Kaviraj was a direct disciple of Srī Paramahamsa Viśuddhānanda. Pandit Kaviraj’s spiritual literature in Bengali

    – Dr. Rangachar The Vaiṣṇava āgamas glorify Viṣṇu as the Supreme Being to the exclusion of other deities. They treat the Ultimate Reality

    – Thomas Cleary Some ask what crystallization of the elixir is. Qing-an said, ‘When body and mind are united, spirit and energy merged,

    – N.K. Singh Was Tantra originally Brahminical or Buddhist? Before we proceed further, the question of whether or not Tantra was introduced in

    शृणु वत्स प्रवक्ष्यामि आद्या स्तोत्रं महाफलम् | यः पठेत्सततं भक्त्या स एव विष्णुवल्लभः || मृत्युर्व्याधिभयं तस्य नास्ति किञ्चित्कलौ युगे | अपुत्रा लभते पुत्रं

    On the line of Atharvaṇic texts, Buddhists wrote numerous Dhāraṇīs consisting of various kinds of charms and chants. These have little to no

  Lce-sgom-pa (summarized translation by Yael Bentor) The text translated here is an exposition of the Buddhist Tantric path written in Tibet in about the

  Raktā Brāhmī – Asitāṅga Bhairava Māhēśvarī – Ruru Bhairava Kaumārī – Chaṇḍa Bhairava Vaiṣṇavī – Krōdhīśa Bhairava Vārāhī – Unmatta Bhairava Māhēndrī – Kapāla

  There are always questions regarding the r̥ṣyādi details for Charitratraya of Durgā Saptaśatī. The first reference would be the Anukramaṇī of Nāgōjī Bhaṭṭa where

    देव देव महादेव सर्वज्ञ करुणानिधे | श्रीमत्पञ्चाक्षरी विद्या साक्षान्मोक्षप्रदायिनी | सर्वमोक्षप्रदं मन्त्रं भ्रूहि मे परमेश्वर || शिवः मन्त्राणां सिद्धिदं मन्त्रं कलौ सिद्धिप्रदायकम् |

अथ कोपपरीतस्य दक्षस्य सुमहात्मनः | निश्चक्राम तदा यक्ष्मा नासिकाग्राद्विभीषणः || दंष्ट्राकरालवदनः कृष्णाङ्गारसमप्रभः | अतिदीर्घः स्वल्पकेशः कृशो धमनि सन्ततः || अधोमुखो दण्डहस्तः कासं विश्रम्य सर्वतः |

  – Bokar Rinpoche (Bokar Rinpoche from the Karma-Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Tantric Buddhism, apart from being a master of various Siddhis that I have

    A category of Tantras holds Veda as the supreme scripture and shun practices considered to be Vēdabāhya. Such śrīkula Tantras insist on adherence

  – Robert Beér According to Tibetan medical tantras, the onset of puberty occurs around the age of twelve for a girl, and around sixteen