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'''Tantra''' [Skt.] (Tib. ''gyü''; ''rgyud''). The term’s basic meaning is ‘thread’ or ‘continuity’. In its more specific usages, the term can mean:
'''Tantra''' [Skt.] (Tib. ''gyü''; ''rgyud''). The term’s basic meaning is ‘thread’ or ‘continuity’. In its more specific usages, the term can mean:
*the name given to key texts of the [[Vajrayana]]
*the key texts of the [[Vajrayana]]
*one of many synonyms for [[Vajrayana]], as opposed to [[sutra]]
*the [[Vajrayana]], as opposed to the [[sutra]] vehicle
*a ‘lineage’, in the sense of a succession of teachers who have held a certain teaching and passed it on to their students, one after another,
*the ‘mental continuum’ or mindstream
*the ‘mental continuum’ which is the continuum of conventional mind (Tib. ''sem'')


[[Category:Key Terms]]
[[Category:Key Terms]]
[[Category:Texts]]
[[Category:Texts]]

Revision as of 15:20, 20 February 2007

Tantra [Skt.] (Tib. gyü; rgyud). The term’s basic meaning is ‘thread’ or ‘continuity’. In its more specific usages, the term can mean:

  • the key texts of the Vajrayana
  • the Vajrayana, as opposed to the sutra vehicle
  • the ‘mental continuum’ or mindstream