Buddhist Tantra- A philosophical Reflection and Religious Investigation

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Lord Buddha, after the attainment of Nirvana under Bodhi Tree at Bodh Gaya through the practice of Tantra Sadhana reflected on the nature and significance of Nirsuna which resulted into the birth of a new school of philosophy and a new religious order known as Buddhism Buddhist Tantra is the sublime and profound form of spirituality. It is monotheistic. It presents the highest form of Monism in Buddhist Tantra, Afya means the eternal co-existence of Prajna and Upaya which constitute the infinite unity and transcendent reality (Boddhi Citta) Buddhist Tantra has made great contribution to the speculative metaphysics in the form of Vijana Vada, (yogacara) and Sunyavada (Madhyamika). The most profound ontological doctrine is considered to be the Madhyamika which claims Sunyata to be intrinsic nature, to be the ultimate mode of existence of phenomenon. One can experience Sunyata only when the mind is liberated from all kinds of mental reification Buddhist Tantra is aware of futality of speculative metaphysics and hence it recommends the practice of intuitional science and esotericism for the realisation of ultimate reality. In this intuitive experience of Prajña and Upaya, essence and existence becomes identical.

Professor Lalan Prasad Singh spent about two decades as a mendicant in search of truth and salvation. During this period he went through the rigours of Tantra Sadhana. He came to a conclusion that Toms is neither a lifeless ritual nor a religious dogma. It is an intuitional science which rids the practitioner from the snares of false subjectivity and takes him to the state of spiritual sublimity and divine effulgence. After going through test and turmoil of life of mendicant be returned back to active academic life. In January 1996 he retired as a Professor of Philosophy from Magadh University, Bodh Gaya and in February of the same year he became Senior Fellow of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, Government of India. In 2000 AD Professor Singh was awarded Fellowship of laden Institute of Advance Studies, Shimla. He became a Visiting Research Professor in 2004 at the Catholic University of America, Washington DC. He was also awarded Indo-French Cultural Fellowship in 1994. During his sojourn at Paris, he delivered series of lectures on Tantra at the Department of Philosophy, Soubourn University IV. Paris (France) He also addressed the students and staff members of Department of Philosophy of Nihon and Toyo University, Tokyo in 2006 He presented many papers at the National and national Seminars and Symposia such as World Philosophical Congress 1975. International Congress of Orientalists, Mexico City 1976, First Sanskrit Symposia, Mexico City, World Sanskrit Congress, Linden, and Holland Prof Singh is a distinguished Professor of Philosophy and a Social Activist Currently he is a Visiting Fellow at Department of Boddhist Studies, University of Delhi.

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