Kriyatantra, Kriyātantra, Kriya-tantra: 5 definitions
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In Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)
Source: OSU Press: Cakrasamvara SamadhiKriyātantra (क्रियातन्त्र) refers to the “mode of action” and represents one of the divisions of Mahāyāna-Vajrayāna Buddhism, according to Buddhist teachings followed by the Newah in Nepal, Kathmandu Valley (whose roots can be traced to the Licchavi period, 300-879 CE).—Mahāyāna-Vajrayāna is commonly divided into four modes of practice, kriyā, "action", worshiping and serving a deity seen as outside oneself, caryā, "performance", embodying a deity by performing its ritual music and dance, yoga, "meditation", visualizing a deity or deities and absorbing them into oneself, and anuttarayoga, "the highest yoga", using sophisticated yogic meditation practices to actively turn oneself into an enlightened divinity. [...] Kriyātantra typically involves the act of pūjā, worshiping a physical deity, such as an idol, and or its mandala, sometimes drawn with grains or pigmented powdered stone, with offerings connected to the senses and the primary elements, such as rice, water, food, flowers, incense, sandalwood or ṭīkā powder, and the recitation of the deities' mantras and stotras.
Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionaryKriyātantra (क्रियातन्त्र).—one of the four classes of Tantras; Buddha.
Derivable forms: kriyātantram (क्रियातन्त्रम्).
Kriyātantra is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms kriyā and tantra (तन्त्र).
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryKriyātantra (क्रियातन्त्र):—[=kriyā-tantra] [from kriyā > kriyamāṇa] n. ‘a Tantra of action’, one of the four classes of [Tantrasāra; Buddhist literature]
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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Kriya, Tantra.
Full-text (+1342): Uparishta, Anuttarayogatantra, Tika, Suketu, Dhvajaketu, Kamavajrini, Vaivasvata, Asura, Mana, Ratnakuta, Maudgalyayana, Rahula, Vimalakirti, Padmasambhava, Vidyaraja, Dipankara, Apalala, Bharata, Bhogavati, Dhumaketu.
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Guhyagarbha Tantra (with Commentary) (by Gyurme Dorje)
Text 19.14 (Commentary) < [Chapter 19 (Text And Commentary)]
Introduction 3.2.3: The Beneficial Attributes which have been Proclaimed < [Chapter 9 (Text And Commentary)]
Text 3.18 (Commentary) < [Chapter 3 (text and commentary)]
The Great Chariot (by Longchenpa)
Part 7 - What these individually maintain < [A. Resolving the view]
Part 3 - Why they are the four tantras taught to those to be tamed < [A. Resolving the view]
Part 2d - The empowerments that ripen the ground < [B. The explanation of meditation practice, together with its action of ripening and freeing]
Rasa Jala Nidhi, vol 5: Treatment of various afflictions (by Bhudeb Mookerjee)
Part 4 - Chemists of the Metallic School: Introduction < [A Brief History of Indian Chemistry and Medicine]
Bodhisattvacharyavatara (by Andreas Kretschmar)
Text Section 100 < [Khenpo Chöga’s Oral Explanations]
Blue Annals (deb-ther sngon-po) (by George N. Roerich)
Chapter 1 - Account of Yoga-tantras < [Book 7 - The preaching of the Tantras]
Chapter 1c - The Zur Geneology (xi): Zhig po bdud rtsi < [Book 3 - Early translations of Secret Mantra]
Chapter 8 - Later Lineages (i): The monk of rog < [Book 12 - Peace-Making Lineages]
Tibet (Myth, Religion and History) (by Tsewang Gyalpo Arya)
8. The Three Yanas < [Chapter 7 - Buddhism in Tibet]