Edamaruku (left) and Sharma during the live broadcast of the challenge
The Great Tantra Challenge was the challenge put forward to Surinder Sharma, a tantrik, by Sanal Edamaruku, the president of Rationalist International to kill him on live TV using only the magical powers he claims to possess.[1] The challenge ended after several hours, with Edamaruku surviving unharmed. The event was broadcast live on India TV in March 2008.
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(contraction of the genitals), ashvini mudra (contraction of the anus), and various asanas and pranayamas. The equivalent chakra in the Vajrayana tantra systems...
and Vajrayana (Tantra). In addition to sutrayana texts from Early Buddhist schools (mostly Sarvastivada) and Mahayana sources, the Tibetan canon includes...
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another, was also adapted by the Golden Dawn (→Tattva vision). Arthur Avalon (1918) affirms that the five nectars of Tantra, Hindu and Buddhist traditions...
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fontanelle and the intersection of the coronal and sagittal sutures of the skull. The crown wheel is important within the Anuttarayoga Tantra tradition of...
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each other. Thetantra texts reflect this, where the collection contains both dualistic and non-dualistic theologies. The theism in thetantra texts parallel...
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