Aghori
अघोरी aghorīAn ascetic of the Aghor tradition, a Śaiva cremation-ground path that worships Shiva in his Aghora (“non-terrible”) aspect and seeks to transcend duality by embracing what society deems impure.
Where this term appears
- The Aghorīs Lineages
When scholars speak carefully, they call the modern Aghorīs the successors of the Kāpālikas, but they note that the continuity is not a documented unbroken chain.
- What is Shaivism? Lineages
… of the tradition alive, the Nath yogis with their split ears and the Aghoris of the cremation ground.
- Who is Bhairava? Deities
The living inheritors of this current are the Aghori ascetics, whom the mainstream tradition both venerates from a distance and keeps at arm's length.
- Why do Hindus cremate their dead? Essentials
It is why certain ascetics, most vividly the Aghoris, make the burning ground their home and their meditation seat: they go to the one place where the lesson cannot be denied.
- Śavaripa the hunter Treatise
A Buddhist adept named Śabara stands fifth on the Tibetan list of the eighty-four Mahāsiddhas, the perfected ones, four places down the roll from the founder of the…
- The channel and the algorithm Treatise
He had been running a social media account styled AGHORI JI RAJASTHAN.
- The healer and the witch Treatise
The woman a village sends for when a child is feverish holds one capacity, and it is understood to point both ways. Whether she is called a healer or a witch is…
- The name on everybody's lips Treatise
Nothing in the record reached here supports the popular claim that Gorakhnāth invented the *śābara* mantras. The corpus's own charter puts the revelation two…