Tantra Classification Main Page - Updated
The Tantra Classifications page has been updated along with the sub-pages. More work still needs to be done making this a work in-progress.
Tantra Classification: in Vajrayana Buddhism there are different ways of enumerating, cataloguing and categorizing the many different texts in Tantra literature. Several different systems made their way to the Himalayas and Tibet. At the present time there are two principal systems in use, the Nyingma and the Sarma. The Tibetan word Nyingma literally means old traditions of Tantra and Sarma means the new traditions of Tantra. The new Tantra traditions are composed of the Kadampa, Sakya, Marpa Kagyu, Shangpa Kagyu, Pacifying of Padampa Sanggye, Jonang and the Rwa Tradition. The Gelug Tradition was not included amongst these formative traditions because it was not in direct receipt of any of the tantric traditions from India but was a later synthesis of the already mentioned traditions in Tibet.