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Essay on Tantrism
Tantrism is the group within Buddhism combining basics of Hinduism and paganism. Buddhism is a belief represented by a lot of groups (particularly in Asia) that acknowledge different forms of the Buddhist set of guidelines and that worship Buddha. Tantrist is a fanatic of Tantrism. The dogma of explanation as the consciousness of the oneness of one's self and the visible world; combines elements of Hinduism and paganism including magical and mystical elements like mantras and mudras and erotic rites; especially influential in Tibet.
The word "Tantrism" is of the Sanskrit derivation, “tantra” means "action". Tantrism implies vigorous spiritual perform as contrasting to simple trust. Religiosity can be articulated in a variety of forms. One of them consists in observance of rituals, reading of religious books, adherence of the regulations of conduct recognized by a certain religion. An additional structure implies dynamic employment of esoteric techniques of psycho energetic development. In this sense our school is Tantric. Other examples are schools of Rajneesh, Yogananda, Juan Matus, schools of Tibetan yoga, Chinese alchemy, and others. But the term Tantrism is sometimes used in another meaning. Some pagan schools of Hinduism, whose basic concept is as follows: there are two divine principles: male and female, and their sexual interaction on the divine level energetically ensure evolution of the whole universe (slightly different versions of this mythological picture are possible). In other words, the evolution proceeds from sexual interaction of male and female principles. And people started imitating gods, endowing sexual interaction with religious meaning.
As a result of the 7th century a new form of Buddhism acknowledged as Tantrism had developed through the combination of Mahayana with popular folk principle and magic in northern India. Comparable to Hindu Tantrism, which arose about the same time, Buddhist Tantrism differs from Mahayana in its strong emphasis on sacramental action......
