Talk:Tibetan tantric practice

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Whilst lojong and paramita sadhana are most definitely Tibetan Buddhist practices, as paramitayana they're not Vajrayana but Mahayana practices... Not tantric practices at all therefore. I think they probably shouldn't be mentioned on this page. Any opinions? Dakinijones (talk) 14:35, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Those references are confusing and need deletion. I've done it. Moonsell (talk) 12:14, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

Overlap with Vajrayana page

As there is such a big overlap between this page and the Vajrayana page, would it not make more sense to combine them both into just one article? A lot of the material is repeated verbatim in both places. What is the difference between Tantra techniques and Vajrayana, if any? Could someone please clarify. Thanks a lot. (Truthbody (talk) 00:40, 5 April 2009 (UTC))

We need to merge this page with the Vajrayana article. Moonsell (talk) 12:14, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

The Vajrayana page is already so long, I don't think I'd agree with this. If anything, this article could be expanding with more details of various practices. Yworo (talk) 18:45, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

One way to solve this problem is to have the Vajrayana page focus on the ideas and this page focus on the actual practices. What does everyone else thing? Fastslack (talk) 03:44, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Tantric sadhana vs Sexual yoga sections

Aren't these two sections about the same topic? Or am I missing something? I think these two sections should be merged in some way. Any comments? Yworo (talk) 18:43, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Not really. It seems like in the Hindu context the word sadhana is used very generally to mean "practice," but in the Buddhist context it is used specifically to mean vajrayana ritual texts and the meditation practices based directly thereupon. This distinction has been obscured on wikipedia thanks to B9 Hummingbird's indiscriminate use of the Hindu sense of the term in articles about Buddhism. I've been trying to fix this whenever I come across it. Usually sadhanas don't involve sexual yoga.Sylvain1972 (talk) 15:17, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Oh, yes, B9 Hummingbird. His ban discussion on WP:ANI was how I came to put several of these articles on my watchlist in the first place. Yworo (talk) 15:32, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

15 Sadhanas?

I'm interested to know where this list of 15 sadhanas of the Nalanda tradition came from.....Chod was not, think, something practiced at Nalanda. And this list omits BuddhaKapala, and Shri Caturpitha, and Mahamaya.....these were almost certainly well known at Nalanda? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Conebeckham (talk • contribs) 17:04, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Deity yoga

Deity yoga should be split out as a separate article. Probably also Empowerment (Vajrayana). We may also want an article on Generation and completion. Skyerise (talk) 13:50, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

Comparison

Maybe someone can write a section comparing Tibetan tantric practices to Indian tantric practices?

~~Ted~~ 2607:FEA8:4A2:4100:AD57:FB2C:9B08:C4E6 (talk) 07:36, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

What sources can you suggest for this? Skyerise (talk) 18:26, 12 March 2023 (UTC)