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Sunday, 12 July 2009
Origins of Tantra
"In the Nath Tradition, legend ascribes the origin of Tantra to Dattatreya, a semi-mythological yogi and the assumed author of the Jivanmukta Gita ("Song of the liberated soul"). Matsyendranath is credited with authorship of the Kaulajnana-nirnaya, a voluminous ninth-century tantra dealing with a host of mystical and magical subjects, and occupies an important position in the Hindu tantric lineage, as well as in Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism."
Labels:
Buddhism,
Dattatreya,
Matsyendranath,
Nath Sampradaya,
Tantra,
Vajrayana
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