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... Vajrayāna Buddhism , apparently without sexoyogic practices , spread to China and then to Japan , where it became known as Shingon , most scholars associate the Vajrayāna tradition primarily with India and Tibet . Although Vajrayana ...
... Vajrayāna Buddhism , apparently without sexoyogic practices , spread to China and then to Japan , where it became known as Shingon , most scholars associate the Vajrayāna tradition primarily with India and Tibet . Although Vajrayana ...
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... Vajrayana practices have been unjustly condemned as a degeneration of Buddhism by those who do not look beyond the surface . It is quite easy to misinterpret the Guhyasamāja - tantra when it states that adultery and eating of human ...
... Vajrayana practices have been unjustly condemned as a degeneration of Buddhism by those who do not look beyond the surface . It is quite easy to misinterpret the Guhyasamāja - tantra when it states that adultery and eating of human ...
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... Vajrayāna and Esoteric traditions that female deities became ubiquitous at the highest levels of the pantheon . From ... Vajrayana and Esoteric Buddhists have simply taken for granted as part of their received tradition . Kings and yogis ...
... Vajrayāna and Esoteric traditions that female deities became ubiquitous at the highest levels of the pantheon . From ... Vajrayana and Esoteric Buddhists have simply taken for granted as part of their received tradition . Kings and yogis ...
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