Noun tantra has 2 senses
  1. tantra - any of a fairly recent class of Hindu or Buddhist religious literature concerned with ritual acts of body and speech and mind
    --1 is a kind of
    Sanskrit literature
  2. Tantra, Tantrism - doctrine of enlightenment as the realization 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
    --2 is a kind of Buddhism
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