Definition of "tantras" [tantras]

• Plural form of tantra. (noun)

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• "His Holiness concludes the teachings with a tantric initiation and the comment that emptiness in the tantras is the same as that presented in the sutras."
• "Thus, at the time when Je (Tsongkhapa) himself was alive, apart from those dharma protectors who are bound by oath and are mentioned in the tantras themselves, no objects for propitiating or seeking the slightest help of harmful negative worldly spirits who are ghosts, was ever installed within the premises of this monastic seat."
• "It is clear that one proceeds in the Mantrayana by this same path, because it is taught in the tantras."