matha
मठ mathaA Hindu monastery or monastic establishment, headed by an acharya and anchoring a sampradaya; often a centre for the copying and custody of manuscripts, and a home for those in sannyasa.
Where this term appears
- The Char Dham Temples
The four mathas, which are not the four dhams Now the part that trips almost everyone.
- Vijayanagara: The Empire Built to Hold the Line History
Vidyaranya became head of the Sringeri matha only decades later, and his earliest firm mention comes around 1375, well after the founding.
- What is a Sampradaya? Philosophy
The acharya and the matha A lineage of individuals needs something to anchor it across the centuries, and the tradition supplies two things.
- What is Advaita Vedanta? Philosophy
…y Mandana's own learned wife, Ubhaya Bharati; of the founding of four mathas , monastic seats at Sringeri in the south, Dwaraka in the west, Puri in the east, and Joshimath in the north, each headed to this day…
- What is the Sri Yantra? Lineages
…t surviving specimens of the Sri Yantra is preserved in the Shringeri Matha, established by the philosopher-saint Shankara in the eighth century AD, although its imagery is far older.
- Who Was Adi Shankara? Philosophy
…s that he ringed the subcontinent with four monasteries, the cardinal mathas at Sringeri in the south, Dwaraka in the west, Puri in the east and Jyotirmath in the north, each placed in the charge of a chief dis…
- Leaf and Bark Treatise
Temples held collections; so did the matha , the monastic establishment, the seat of a teaching lineage.
- How We Know: Inscriptions, Manuscripts and Archaeology History
The history of the tradition is rebuilt from four main kinds of evidence: inscriptions carved in stone and copper, manuscripts copied by hand across centuries, the…