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Tantra [Skt.] (Tib. gyü; rgyud). The term’s basic meaning is ‘thread’ or ‘continuity’. In its more specific usages, the term can mean:

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 '''Tantra''' [Skt.] (Tib. ''gyü''; ''rgyud''). The term’s basic meaning is ‘thread’ or ‘continuity’. In its more specific usages, the term can mean:
-*the name given to key texts of the [[Vajrayana]]
+*the key texts of the [[Vajrayana]]
-*one of many synonyms for [[Vajrayana]], as opposed to [[sutra]]
+*the [[Vajrayana]], as opposed to the [[sutra]] vehicle
-*a ‘lineage’, in the sense of a succession of teachers who have held a certain teaching and passed it on to their students, one after another,
+*the ‘mental continuum’ or mindstream
-*the ‘mental continuum’ which is the continuum of conventional mind (Tib. ''sem'')
 [[Category:Key Terms]]
 [[Category:Texts]]