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  • Tantra is a union of lovers, and union with the divine, with God.

    shameless self-promotion 2008

  • Update: Chef Sanjay is no longer with Tantra, and the management seems to have changed too; the food is not as great as it used to be, but is still decent to label Tantra as a nice restaurant to try in the vicinity!

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • Update: Chef Sanjay is no longer with Tantra, and the management seems to have changed too; the food is not as great as it used to be, but is still decent to label Tantra as a nice restaurant to try in the vicinity!

    Tantra Indian Restaurant - Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles 2008

  • The fact is that a whole class of Sanskrit religious literature is described by the titles Tantra, Âgama and Saṃhitâ, [450] which taken in a wide sense are practically synonymous, though usage is inclined to apply the first specially to Śâktist works, the second to Śivaite and the third to Vishnuite.

    Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 Charles Eliot 1896

  • The word Tantra originally meant a manual giving the essentials of

    Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 Charles Eliot 1896

  • Signature Poses: As Toolin explains, one of the definitions of the word Tantra is "to combine."

    Common Ground 2009

  • Signature Poses: As Toolin explains, one of the definitions of the word Tantra is "to combine."

    Whole Life Times 2009

  • Signature Poses: As Toolin explains, one of the definitions of the word Tantra is "to combine."

    Whole Life Times 2009

  • I was reading online the other week when I came across a new book out from a new indie press called Siglio in Los Angeles: an art book of religious paintings from Rajasthan, selected and compiled by the French poet Franck André Jamme, called "Tantra Song."

    Independent Bookstores: How To Compete With Amazon 2012

  • This girl went to a nightclub called Tantra in Miami and didn't think she might get savaged by a roaming pack of rabid guidettes?

    Gawker 2010

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