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- Esotericism refers to the doctrines or practices of esoteric knowledge, or the quality or state of being obscure. Esoteric knowledge is that ...12 KB (1,732 words) - 21:30, 20 March 2024
- Tiantai and also learned the practices of esoteric Buddhism. After he returned ... Saichō included Zen (禅, trad. 禪), esoteric Mikkyō (密教), and Vinaya ...15 KB (2,260 words) - 05:41, 27 February 2023
- for Western occult enthusiasts. Later esoteric writers further emphasized ... ===Western esoteric traditions=== Madame Blavatsky, who claimed to ...10 KB (1,530 words) - 09:52, 6 October 2022
- due to the fact that he did not die. This esoteric passage lead the second ... Among the minor Midrashim, esoteric attributes of Enoch are expanded ...11 KB (1,772 words) - 11:37, 5 February 2022
- “The Secret of the Golden Flower” is an esoteric guide to Daoist ... Quan and Lü Dongbin, who trained him in esoteric Daoist rituals. ...12 KB (1,770 words) - 17:27, 30 April 2023
- Japan. It is often called "Japanese Esoteric Buddhism." The word ... The teachings of Shingon are based on esoteric Vajrayana texts, the ...22 KB (3,219 words) - 14:14, 27 January 2023
- may be envisioned as prototypical and esoteric mapping machines or conceptual ... Some Hindu esoteric practitioners employ yantra, mantra and other ...9 KB (1,275 words) - 10:12, 22 May 2023
- Padmasambhava's ability to memorize and comprehend esoteric texts ... tertons). These works were deemed too esoteric or advanced for the Tibetans ...13 KB (2,014 words) - 23:24, 19 December 2025
- thought to explain some of the more esoteric concepts of Buddhism. ... thought, to explain some of the more esoteric Buddhist concepts. The result ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 08:49, 19 July 2024
- Vajrayana Buddhism (also known as Tantric Buddhism, Tantrayāna, Esoteric Buddhism, and the Diamond Vehicle) refers to a family of Buddhist lineages ...27 KB (4,057 words) - 22:19, 21 January 2024
- mostly gnostic gospels, apocalypses, and esoteric treatises. They also include ... While many of the Nag Hammadi books are highly esoteric in nature ...16 KB (2,444 words) - 12:21, 2 June 2025
- a special system of Kabbalah, the Jewish esoteric tradition, his fame led ... living which included the observance of esoteric rituals and meditations ...11 KB (1,787 words) - 10:40, 30 November 2024
- More esoteric nitrogen oxides include N2O5 and the blue species N2O3. Oxidized (cationic) and reduced (anionic) derivatives of many of these oxides ...6 KB (846 words) - 01:47, 1 July 2025
- of longevity. These religious and esoteric writings represent only ... in the swelling tide of enthusiasm for esoteric and religious Daoism in the West. ...30 KB (4,865 words) - 06:29, 18 April 2024
- Assagioli, Psychosynthesis, and the Esoteric Roots of Transpersonal Psychology ... Alice Bailey, who had founded a New Age esoteric school called the Arcane ...19 KB (2,962 words) - 21:30, 16 April 2023
- Several contemporary groups in esoteric and New Age traditions honor ... Colombian esoteric writer Samael Aun Weor considered an Immortal, ...17 KB (2,637 words) - 08:29, 10 January 2024
- Rosicrucianism (meaning "Rose Cross") refers to a family of secret societies formed in late medieval Germany, which taught esoteric ...24 KB (3,613 words) - 19:19, 16 December 2022
- (born Arnolda Garro Mora), who became his esoteric collaborator and mother ... transmutation, tantra, sexual magic and esoteric initiation. ...39 KB (5,837 words) - 11:35, 6 September 2022
- The feast is an esoteric ritual that unfolds in many stages. The sacred ... has roots in a complex and coterie of esoteric traditions of numerous Siddha ...14 KB (2,144 words) - 04:22, 18 April 2024
- Some Hindu esoteric practitioners employ yantra, mantra and other ... envisioned as prototypical and esoteric concept mapping machines ...23 KB (3,394 words) - 16:47, 24 October 2023
