amnaya
आम्नाय amnayaA line of scriptural transmission; the four amnaya mathas are the cardinal monasteries traditionally founded by Adi Shankara.
Where this term appears
- The 64 Śākta Tantras Lineages
The 64 Śākta Tantras are the Goddess-centred tantric scriptures, named in a famous verse of the Saundaryalaharī. The number 64 is a traditional and symbolic…
- The Char Dham Temples
The four mathas form their own ordered system, the amnaya mathas, each assigned a Veda and a mahavakya , a "great saying" of the Upanishads.
- Nyasa As Architecture Treatise
Then the body-as-fullness ( purnata ) installation, in which the body is meditated as the Anuttara amnaya ’s seat itself, the goddess in her unmanifest fullness.
- Purascharana Treatise
…ture - the diksha, the mantra, the manuals, the two worships, the six amnayas, the nyasas, the purascharanas - has been carrying across twelve hundred years of transmission is what the final chapter takes up.
- The Mantra, At Architecture Treatise
The Shodashi practitioner has access to operational domains the Panchadashi practitioner does not - including, in particular, the Urdhva amnaya that Chapter 5 walks.
- The Manuals Treatise
…-fold yaga expansion (Chapter 4); the structural framework of the six amnayas and the four-Shankaracharya-matha correspondence (Chapter 5); the nyasas by which the practitioner’s body becomes the operative subs…
- The Six Amnayas Treatise
The six vidyas-from-faces are what the tradition calls the six amnayas .
- Two Worships, Four Yagas Treatise
It is rare, restricted, and is what the Anuttara amnaya (Chapter 5) operates in.