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Exploring Nondual Shaiva Tantra with Christopher Wallis

Deconstructing Yourself

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The History of Tantra and Its Origins in India

Tantric Buddhism was wiped out in India with the Muslim conquests. It got exported to Tibet and other regions as well before those conquests. The tradition fragmented because all of these components have just mentioned philosophy and yoga and ritual and embodied or sexual practices were all part of one tradition but survived in different regions. These texts did survive there's a continuous tradition even if it barely survived right still there's a continued tradition of study of the sutras down to the present day.

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