Topics on Tantric Cults and Practices
First Online: May 19, 2001
Page Last Updated: January 13, 2026
Tantra (thu-n-tra, from Sanskrit, technique or methodology): Tantra refers to a class of Sanskrit treatises of theology, yoga, construction of temples, healing, and religious practices such as spells, rituals, and symbols.
Tantric Cults and Practices of India
| Genitalia
Worship Indians have regarded creation as the grandest miracles and have found divinity in the organs that facilitate it. |
Female
Worship "Without the Yoni, even the Lord cannot create", says a tantric prayer. Examples of female power worship. |
| Worship of Women in India Dr. Kamat's paper on the tradition of worship of womanhood in India. |
- Cowrie Seashell
- Devi Devata -- "The Goddess deity"
- Devotees Flanking a Lingam
- Earliest Symbol of Genitalia Worship?
- Genitalia Worship
- Genitalia as Art
- Goddess Marikamba (the ferocious mother) of Sirsi
- The Ishwar Linga
- The Linga and its Cosmic Power
- Man and Woman in a Tantric Ritual
- The Muladhara Chakras in the Human Body
- One of a Thousand Lingas, Sahasralinga
- Rare Sculpture of Lajja Gouri
- Ruins of a Ishwara Linga
- Sculpture of Madhya Pradesh
- Shakti Goddess
- Tantic Sex
- Tantric Goddess with the Bow
- Tantric Illustration Invoking Shakti
- Villagers with Drinking Bowls in their Hands
- Wood Carving
See Also:
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Kamasutra Retold -- New interpretations of ancient text Kamasutra based on post-medieval Indian sculptures, paintings, and literature. Includes graphical interpretations of many sexual positions.
