Mantrapitha
mantrapīṭhaThe Seat of the Mantras, the class of Bhairava tantras named for its masculine mantra-deities, and in the surviving literature a category carried by a single major early text, the Svacchandatantra. That text nowhere claims the seat for itself; the assignment is made for it by the Jayadrathayāmala, by Kṣemarāja, and by the colophons of its Nepalese manuscripts.
Where this term appears
- The Types of Tantra Lineages
The Mantrapīṭha holds the Bhairava-centred texts, mantra being grammatically masculine, and is headed by the Svacchanda , the only one of its eight Bhairava texts that survives entire.
- Kubjika and the Paschimamnaya: four origins Lineages
It is worth being careful about how this scheme relates to the older division of the tantric canon into the two seats, the Mantrapīṭha and the Vidyāpīṭha.
- The Svacchanda Tantra: the fight over what was in the cup Lineages
…hairava, which derived its authority from the Svacchandatantra of the Mantrapitha section of the Tantras of Bhairava, and was therefore, strictly speaking, a tradition of the Kapalika-based left.
- The two seats: how the tantric canon was actually organised Lineages
One of those, the Bhairava stream, divides into two seats: the Mantrapīṭha , the seat of the masculine mantra-deities, which the handbooks gloss as headed by the Svacchandatantra ; and the Vidyāpīṭha , the seat…