Buddhism in Five Minutes - Elizabeth J. Harris
47. Is Tantric Buddhism Just about Sex?
Buddhism in Five Minutes - Elizabeth J. Harris
Nick Swann [+]
University of South Wales
Nick Swann is a Senior Lecturer in Buddhist Studies at University of South Wales, UK. His research interests include Buddhist Ethics, Buddhist Tantra, and Anthropology and Religion.
Description
The short answer is “no.” Tantric sex—or more correctly “sexual yoga”—is a real phenomenon but that does not mean that it is practiced extensively, or by all tantric practitioners, or in a literal sense (in contrast to a visualized, imagined, sense in a meditational context), or all of the time.