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A form of Tantric practice, often characterized as ‘extreme’ or ‘transgressive’, marked by the use of the pañca-makāra (‘five Ms’), impure substances, in contrast to the relative purity of the dakṣiṇācāra (‘right-handed practice/path’).
From: vāmācāra in A Dictionary of Hinduism »
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