[Y-Indology] samkara tradition and temple worship

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Tuesday, March 11, 2003 4:05 PM

[Y-Indology] Re: samkara tradition and temple worship

 

 

> So what? So many elements in Tantra have been absorbed by numerous

> schools including Advaita. Anyway Tantra was itself a Buddhist

> innovation which was absorbed by "Hindu" streams.

 

I am more familiar with what I think is the commoner view, that tantra

originated in brahmanical circles and then spread to Buddhism. Is the view

you have represented here also widely held?

 

>From the positionless position,

 

Phillip