Topics on Tantric Cults and Practices
First Online: May 19, 2001
Page Last Updated: August 20, 2024
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.