mantramarga
मन्त्रमार्ग mantramarga'The way of mantras'; the mainstream Tantric path of the Shaiva tradition.
Where this term appears
- The 28 Śaiva Āgamas Lineages
The 28 Śaiva Āgamas are the revealed scriptural canon of the Śaiva Siddhānta, the dualist, ritual-centred mainstream of tantric Śaivism. They are counted as ten…
- What are the Āgamas and Tantras? Lineages
The Āgamas and Tantras are the revealed scriptures of the tantric traditions, a second body of revelation standing alongside the Veda. The word āgama means "that…
- The Types of Tantra Lineages
There is no single classification of Tantra. The tradition produced several, each fixed in datable Sanskrit texts: the five *srotas* or streams of scripture,…
- What is Tantra? Lineages
…nturies, roughly from the sixth to the twelfth, tantric Shaivism, the mantramarga or "way of mantras," became the dominant religion of kings across the subcontinent and beyond it, into Cambodia, Java and Bali.
- The Nisvasa: the oldest tantra, and what it does not yet know Lineages
It is a preface, and what it prefaces is the religious landscape out of which the Mantramarga came.
- The Kashmir Recovery and Lakshmanjoo Treatise
It is, he writes, certainly the latest of the Mantramarga traditions he surveys, and its root scripture clings to the edge of the Saiva canon.