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Vajrayana
- VajrayanaIn the 5th century, a new spiritual current began to flow through medieval India. This movement emerged from pre-existing Tantric traditions within Hinduism…
- Silk Road transmission of BuddhismIn the year 138 BCE, a Chinese envoy named Zhang Qian departed the Han capital of Chang'an on a mission to secure alliances against northern nomads.
- KapalikaThe word Kāpālika comes from the Sanskrit term kapāla, meaning skull. This name defines a Tantric tradition of Shaivism that emerged in medieval India…
- YogacharaIn the first centuries of the common era, a group of yogis from the Sarvastivada and Sautrantika traditions in north India began to adopt Mahayana Buddhism.