kaula
कौल kaulaThe Kaula stream of tantra, centred on the kula (the family of deities and energies), often employing the five m's; in Srividya, the external/embodied path contrasted with Samaya.
Where this term appears
- The Kularnava Tantra: The Kaula Path and the True Guru Lineages
It is the most quoted manual of the Kaula path, and its real energy goes not into licensing transgression but into demanding discipline, exalting the guru, and exposing the frauds who hide behind tantric langua…
- The 64 Śākta Tantras Lineages
Abhinavagupta's Trika synthesis in Kashmir folded Kali-cults into a single non-dual system; the Śrīvidyā absorbed Kaula elements freely.
- The Shatkarma: The Six Acts of Tantric Magic Lineages
…nct to read its most transgressive rites as inner events, the way the Kaula texts insist that the forbidden wine of the five sacraments is really the intoxication of the risen Kundalini and not a drink at all, …
- The Types of Tantra Lineages
…he Mantramārga, and those of "the predominantly Śākta Kulamārga," the Kaula path, which he now derives from the third Atimārga division; in 1988 the Kaula had been a reform movement inside the Mantramārga canon…
- The Vijnana Bhairava Tantra Lineages
…y the great philosopher Abhinavagupta, and it breathes the air of the Kaula lineages, which sought liberation not by fleeing the world but through the world.
- What is Diksha? Lineages
The Kularnava Tantra, a central text of the Kaula stream, puts the same conviction in a single breath: there is no liberation without initiation, and no initiation without a teacher.
- What is Shaktipat? Lineages
It simply does not live where those books say it lives. The four belong to the Kaula and Shakta manuals of initiation.
- What is Shaktism? Lineages
The Kularnava Tantra , the most quoted Kaula manual, says it flatly in its second ullasa , its second chapter.