is is particularly the case in the area of formal or ritual, practices, which Vaishnavas oſten identify as archana -the con- stellation of activities centred on the worship of Vishnu as embodied in a physical form, graphic representation, or feature of physical nature. What may be less known even within current Vaishnava circles is that tantra-or as- pects of what can be identified as tantra-is Vaishnava Tantra As Outlined in the Bhagavata Krishna Kshetra Swami generally an integral feature of Vaishnava cul- ture and practice. I practise bhakti!’ In- deed, it is safe to say that most Vaishnavas con- sider devotion, bhakti, to Vishnu, Narayana, or Krishna to be the defining feature of Vaish- navism. PB January 2016 178 I f you ask a vaishnava w hether she or he practises tantra, the answer is likely to be: ‘No, absolutely not.
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