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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tuwanriyas" data-source="post: 21198589" data-attributes="member: 269851">Tibetan Buddhism, Kama Sutra, and Tantric SexTantra, by that name, derives from Vedic/Hindu religions, and  was most common in Northern India, although it became mixed together  with Southern Indian local religions such as the worship of Kali. A strange offshoot of it – is in the Tibetan mixed-religion  sometimes called Tibetan Buddhism, but also referred to as Tibetan  Lamaism. <img src="http://www.exoticindiaart.com/details/books/nae614.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> In ancient times, Tibet had a native local god/goddess  religion, parallel to the Indian local/regional god/goddess systems.  Around the time of the Aryan invasion of India, Aryans consolidated the  triple-god concept (Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva) by absorbing the various  Dravidian local goddesses as “shaktis” (originally the word meant  “power” but it came to imply “female consort”) for their triad.  Meanwhile, the Tibetans were left on their own, hence their “Lamaism”  does not resemble classic Hinduism. Buddhism then swept in and the Tibetans really took to it in a  big way, but rather like the parallel example of the Mayans in Mexico  adopting the Catholic religion but warping it to fit their own local  religions (viz. The Virgin of Guadelupe) – the Tibetans never abandoned  their ancient god/goddess pairings, so suddenly you have these big  Buddhist tankas (religious paintings) showing the 108 Bodhisatvas (108  is a sacred number for mathematical reasons in many cultures, most  notably Asia, while Bodhisatvas are nearly enlightened monks who could  achieve nirvana (“nothingness”) but choose as good Samaritans to  reincarnate and help other souls evolve to the point of nirvanahood) —  and each of these 108 Bodhisatvas is shown with a naked woman, his  shakti, in his lap having sex with him… The 108 Tibetan shaktis are the remnants of local goddesses,  and they still bear the mnemonic attributes (colour, sacred objects they  hold, mudras (gestures) they are making with their hands, accompanying  animals or flowers, etc.) of their former status. Now, just as the Catholic church took “The Song of Solomon”  from the Bible and said, “This is not about having sex with a woman,  folks, this is about the Church’s longing for Jesus,” so did the Tibetan  Buddhists explain away the sexual congress between these 108  Bodhisatvas and their shaktis as a kind of ephemeral spiritual congress. Judaism does this in a similar way: the Shekinah (sounds like  Shakti, probably from the same proto-Indo-European root) is a female  principle representing light or god’s holy spirit, and is known by  Judaic scholars, even those who are devoutly monotheistic, to represent  an indigenous goddess-worship system that was absorbed into the worship  of the male god Jehovah. The major difference between the Judaic system and the Tibetan  Buddhist one is that the Tibetans never stopped drawing representations  of the shakti. Over the years she was drawn smaller and smaller,  however. In the Vedic (Hindu) Tantra sects, the shakti is represented by  a woman of normal size, or perhaps a little smaller-than-average. In  the Tibetan tankas, the shakti is smaller-than-average on down to little  more than doll-size. She is always there, though, in the Bodhisatva’s  lap. Asking about this from a Pokara Monk, China Expat was told: “Well,  without his shakti, the Bodhisatva would not be enlightened.” So they  are acknowledging this ancient tantric (for lack of a more universal  word) union as a prerequisite for what they now (being nominally  Buddhists) call “enlightenment.” Tibetan Buddhists, who are, more properly speaking, practicing a  Buddhist veneer over their native nature-sex religion, have come up  with ways of allowing the Buddhist search for “nothingness” and the  “absence of desire” to meld with their earlier sex-worship religion. The way it used to work (pre-Chinese Communist invasion, of  course) was that they would take young male candidates for the monastery  at about the age of 17 and give them a good two years training in  Tantric sex with a female teacher (generally a woman in her 30s or 40s,  who taught many men – nice work if you can get it) and then they  gradually weaned them from actual physical sex into spiritual sex, so  that they could experience the same sort of sexual-spiritual bliss  through imaginative meditation. In accounts written by travelers to Tibet during the 19th and  early 20th century, it was said that these young men were treated as  hermits, made to dwell in isolated caves, their food brought to them  twice a day, and the sexual teacher coming to them at intervals. They  were to meditate upon sexual union with her while she was away, and  eventually they achieved a state of protracted sexual union bliss in the  absence of any physical entity. In short, they were aiming to become  Bodhisatvas themselves, with their shakti reduced from a real woman to a  kind of holy spirit memory of their teacher. Their lover in her  spiritual guise (not physical) was called a tulpa. Apparently this is still practiced in Nepal and in the more remote areas of Tibet.  By the 19th century, when Western reports of it became common,  the Vedic form of tantric sex – especially in Southern India – seems to  have degenerated to a kind of glorified temple prostitution. Women in  India were socially and culturally so devalued that even tantra could  not enhance their lost status. In Tibet, Northern India and Nepal, women  were treated with greater dignity, so the type of tantra practiced  there was less opportunistic. Even in India, however, there were splits  between the “left hand” and “right hand” Tantric sects. The left hand  ones were more orgiastic and the right hand ones were more devotional.  An offshoot also appeared in the 19th century Westernization of  Tantra called Karezza (Italian for “caress”) which was promulgated in  the U.S. by a woman named Alice Bunker Stockham circa 1880 or so.  Karezza flourished in the era prior to World War One and found adherents  around the world. It was not presented as a religion, but appeared to  be popular in the social circles of the time where one also encountered  interest in Theosophy, female suffrage, occultism, dress reform,  temperance, and Christian Socialism. Either way, the practice of tantric sex – and the gradual  substituting of physical sex for achieving a mental state of orgasm –  nirvana – still lives on and is practiced by many followers in the West,  Sting and Richard Gere being just two examples, as well as a few,  carefully secretive, monks in remote Tibetan monasteries.</blockquote>

Verification: Nawa warak dahaya keeyada? (Namaya wadi kireema dahaya)

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