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Tantrika
[ tuhn-tri-kuh, tan- ]
noun
- Also called Tan·trist [tuhn, -trist, tan, -]. an adherent of Tantra.
adjective
- of or relating to Tantra.
Example Sentences
Francesca, a Tantrika, or expert on sacred sensuality, was my next recovery attempt.
Her parents, whom she describes in her first book, “Tantrika,” were a devoutly religious couple and shaped her early encounters with Islam.
Find out the numerical value of the letters composing the word according to the methods given in ancient Tantrika works.
Hinduism has assimilated these "prior superstitions of the sons of Tur" as Mr. Hodgson calls them, in the form of Tantrika mysteries, whilst, in the wild performance of the Dancing Dervishes at Constantinople, we see perhaps again the infection of Turanian blood breaking out from the very heart of Mussulman orthodoxy.
Mr. Hodgson also pronounces a collection of drawings of Bonpo divinities, which were made for him by a mendicant friar of the sect from the neighbourhood of Tachindu, or Ta-t'sien-lu, to be saturated with Sakta attributes, i.e. with the spirit of the Tantrika worship, a worship which he tersely defines as "a mixture of lust, ferocity, and mummery," and which he believes to have originated in an incorporation with the Indian religions of the rude superstitions of the primitive Turanians.
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