jyotirlinga
ज्योतिर्लिङ्ग jyotirliṅgaA 'lingam of light'; twelve special shrines revered as sites where Shiva appeared as an infinite column of light.
Where this term appears
- The Twelve Jyotirlingas Temples
The Lingodbhava , "the arising of the linga." It is the theological root of the word jyotirlinga .
- The Lingam Explained Deities
The pillar of light This is why the highest form of the lingam is the jyotirlinga , the lingam of light, the infinite column of the Lingodbhava story.
- Who is Shiva? Deities
The pillar was infinite, and it was Shiva, the jyotirliṅga , the liṅga of light, the limitless reality beyond both the creator and the preserver.
- Nagara, Dravida and Vesara: The Styles of the Hindu Temple Temples
The eastern Nagara line reaches its climax at Konark, the Sun Temple, and the same Dravida and Nagara forms house the great Shiva shrines gathered in the Twelve Jyotirlingas.
- The Char Dham Temples
Rameswaram is Shaiva, sacred to Shiva, and is also counted among the Jyotirlinga shrines, the lingas of light.
- The Mahamrityunjaya Mantra Worship
And it has its places, above all the jyotirlinga at Tryambakeshwar, near the source of the Godavari, whose very name is the name in the mantra.
- The Pancha Bhuta Sthalam: Five Element Temples Temples
This is the great myth of the lingodbhava , the arising of the linga, the same story that underlies the twelve Jyotirlingas.
- The Vastu-Purusha-Mandala: The Plan Behind the Temple Temples
The mandala underlies the regional styles described in Nagara, Dravida and Vesara, and the same logic of sanctum and axis governs shrines like the twelve Jyotirlingas.