samaya
समय samayaIn Srividya, the internal 'right' worship in which the goddess is adored within the subtle body (associated with Lakshmidhara's Samaya school), as distinct from the external Kaula path.
Where this term appears
- The 64 Śākta Tantras Lineages
The "right-current" schools, the Dakṣina and Samaya lineages, read them symbolically, or substitute permitted stand-ins, and this is the majority.
- What is Diksha? Lineages
At the bottom is the samayin , the one bound by the samaya , the rules and disciplines of the school, admitted through a lesser initiation but not yet liberated.
- What is Tantra? Lineages
In right-hand and Samaya lineages, the same five were taken symbolically or internalized.
- Four in the Morning Treatise
…, and that within each of these run further distinctions of Kaula and Samaya and Kadi and Hadi and Sadi.
- Kameshvara - And The Four Acharas Treatise
The Saubhagya, Hadi, Samaya, Kaula, and Vama traditions all hold the cosmological position the verse states.
- Nyasa As Architecture Treatise
The Samaya tradition performs the nyasa sequence - or rather, performs only the nyasa sequence, treating it as the entirety of the practice - since for Lakshmidhara’s tradition the body, having been installed a…
- The Bengali Shakta And Vamachara Sub-Lineages Treatise
…n, and sexual union) rather than the internalisation of them that the Samaya position holds.
- The Body, Crown To Feet Treatise
…mentarial traditions of the Saundarya Lahari differ further, with the Samaya and Kaula lineages reading the same body-walk through different doctrinal lenses.