kula
कुल kula'Family, clan, totality' - in Kaula Tantra, the whole manifest cosmos understood as the 'family' of Shakti, and the fellowship of initiates. Paired with its opposite akula (Shiva, the transcendent), kula names immanent power; their union is the non-dual reality the tradition worships.
Where this term appears
- The Kularnava Tantra: The Kaula Path and the True Guru Lineages
The ocean of the Kula The name tells you its scale and its subject.
- The Types of Tantra Lineages
…d two in 1988: the Pāñcārthika Pāśupata, derived from Lakulīśa, the Lākula, and the Kāpālika or Somasiddhānta, added as a third only after 1988, in which paper the word Kāpālika had been reserved for a Mantramā…
- What is Tantra? Lineages
…re is Abhinavagupta, who took the raw Kaula rite of sexual union, the kula-yaga he describes in the twenty-ninth chapter of his Tantraloka , and reframed it as an inward, gnostic event, a means of resting in no…
- What is the Sri Yantra? Lineages
Bhaskararaya inverts the usual rule and quotes a text to do it: twice-born persons without initiation into the kula , the lineage, are not qualified.
- Ishta-Devata: Choosing a Personal Deity Deities
There is the kula-devata , the deity of the family line, worshipped at weddings and the great turnings of a household, inherited with the name.
- What is Jyotisha? Scriptures
The kula-jyotishi , the family astrologer, is a real social role, part counsellor, part genealogist, part scheduler.
- What is Kashmir Shaivism? Philosophy
The names: Trika, Spanda, Pratyabhijna, Kula "Kashmir Shaivism" is a modern label, popularised in the twentieth century.
- Duhāī: eight books, counted Treatise
…्त्र-संग्रह , parts 1, 3 and 7 of a numbered series, founding editor "Kula-bhūṣaṇ" Paṇḍit Ramādatta Śukla, M.A., of Prayāg, editor Ṛtaśīl Śarmā, published by Kalyāṇ Mandir Prakāśan of Alopī-Devī Mārg, Prayāg 21…