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In the first article in this series, I explored how esoteric Taoism approached sacred sexuality through the conservation and transformation of sexual energy. In the second, I covered how Hindu Tantric Shaivism took it further — insisting that the body, the senses, and desire are not obstacles to the divine but gateways to it. Now we arrive at the third major influence on Western sacred sexuality: Tantric Buddhism.