tantrists

Three conditions of men, called the animal, heroic and divine, [712] are often mentioned and are said to characterize three periods of life -- youth, manhood and age, or three classes of mankind, non-tantrists, ordinary tantrists, and adepts.

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

But though tantrists did not go about robbing and murdering so freely as their principles allowed, there is some evidence that in the period of decadence the morality of the Bhikshus had fallen into great discredit.

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