acharya
आचार्य ācāryaA teacher or preceptor, especially a guru qualified to give diksha and to expound a sampradaya's teaching; the title borne by the heads of the great mathas.
Where this term appears
- What is a Guru? Lineages
Bühler's translation, at 2.145, sets the order plainly: "The teacher (acharya) is ten times more venerable than a sub-teacher, the father a hundred times more than the teacher, and the mother a thousand times m…
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
He had been told in conversation by Acharya Gayacharan Tripathi that a manuscript of a Saura-samuccaya was held in a library in Bhubaneswar.
- The Pāñcarātra Saṃhitās Lineages
The Teṉkalai teacher Piḷḷai Lokācārya gave it a homely image: the avatars were a flood that came and passed, while the image in the sanctum is a pool on the bank, standing still, that anyone may come and scoop …
- What are Mudras? Lineages
In truth, the specific therapeutic chart is largely a twentieth-century systematization, popularised above all by the teacher Acharya Keshav Dev, drawing on the flavour of Ayurveda.
- What is Diksha? Lineages
And at the top is the acharya , the master, initiated to a degree that lets him in turn initiate others.
- What is Vaishnavism? Lineages
Vaishnavism is the stream of Hinduism centred on Vishnu as the supreme reality, worshipped through his forms and avatars, above all Rama and Krishna. It is perhaps…
- Tat tvam asi: three readings Philosophy
Tat tvam asi, usually rendered "that thou art," is a single sentence from the Chandogya Upanishad (6.8.7) that became the proving ground for the three great schools…
- The Bhakti Saints Philosophy
The acharyas built the systems; the saints lived the love those systems tried to explain.