You may wonder what the phrase “classical Tantra” refers to. It distinguishes our subject matter from the later Hindu Tantra and haṭha-yoga traditions, and also from modern Western neo-Tantra. The classical Tantra treated in this volume is associated with a specific religious tradition, the religion of Śiva-Śakti, also known as Shaivism, the domina

Karmamudrā practices may have been at one time a part of the path for all tāntrikas, and it is clear that in Indian Buddhist tantra such practices were commonplace.

the Daoist and Buddhist philosophies together and created a religious Dao.