achara
आचार acharaEstablished custom and right conduct; in practice one of the working sources of dharma, often overriding the letter of the law-books.
Where this term appears
- The Law of Manu Treatise
Beyond that frame it descends into detail. There are rules of conduct, achara .
- Kameshvara - And The Four Acharas Treatise
The chapter that follows walks the divergence through the framework the tradition has used to organize it: the four acharas .
- The Court Treatise
… the chapter where lineage divergence becomes load-bearing - the four acharas the front matter named diverge most sharply on how the Shiva-Shakti union the consort represents is to be related to operationally.
- The Name Treatise
…ashi variants, the figure the Saubhagya and Samaya and Kaula and Vama acharas have approached through their four modes, the figure Tirumular meditated on through his Navakkari , the figure the Kashmir Shaiva su…
- The Shape Of The Whole Treatise
…oddess-architecture, the mantric variants, the lineage diversity, the Achara distinctions — all operate within an architectural commonality that the streams genuinely share.
- Two Worships, Four Yagas Treatise
How the four lineages weight them The four lineage-modes (the acharas Volume 2 named) weight the four yagas differently.