n.
Any of a comparatively recent class of Hindu or Buddhist religious literature written in Sanskrit and concerned with powerful ritual acts of body, speech, and mind.
[Sanskrit tantram, doctrine, loom.]
tantric tan'tric (-trĭk) adj.
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