What Do We Mean by "Tantra"?

About this episode

The episode explores the multivalent meanings of the word 'Tantra' and the importance of context in understanding spiritual terminology.

Sanskrit words are multivalent: they mean many different things in many different contexts. And so understanding the context in which a charged word like "God" or "Tantra" is used is very important since almost all of our misunderstandings between one other might just come down to this: we assume we all mean the same thing and have the same experiences with terms that we use in common, like "God" and "Tantra." Because this is simply not the case, we take some time in this video to carefully s...

People in this episode

Host: Nishanth Selvalingam

Topics covered

• Tantra
• Sanskrit
• misunderstanding
• context
• spirituality

Keywords

• Tantra
• Sanskrit
• God
• context
• spirituality
• misunderstanding
• language

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Tantra, God

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