sampradaya
सम्प्रदाय sampradāyaA lineage of transmission: the chain of guru and disciple, entered through diksha, by which a tradition's teaching and authority are handed down. Its unbroken succession is its parampara.
Where this term appears
- What is a Sampradaya? Philosophy
It is a chain of people. It is the sampradaya .
- Who Was Adi Shankara? Philosophy
Adi Shankara (most likely c. 700-750 CE; traditionally 788-820) was the philosopher who gave Advaita Vedanta, non-dualism, its definitive systematic form. He wrote…
- Ishta-Devata: Choosing a Personal Deity Deities
It usually comes through one's guru , who may give a deity and a mantra at initiation, or through the deity the family and the sampradaya , the lineage, have always kept.
- Shruti and Smriti: what counts as Hindu scripture? Scriptures
The category of "shruti" is agreed in principle, but in practice the texts people read, recite, and live by vary enormously by region, by sect, by sampradaya (lineage), and by philosophical school.
- Tantric Alchemy: The Quest for the Immortal Body Lineages
Tantric alchemy is the Indian science of rasa, mercury, and the tradition, called rasa-shastra or rasayana, that grew up around it in the medieval Nath and Siddha…
- The Four Ashramas: the stages of life Essentials
The four ashramas are the classical stages of life in Hindu thought: brahmacharya, the celibate student; grihastha, the married householder; vanaprastha, the…
- The Four Streams of Hinduism Essentials
Here the concept of the sampradaya, the lineage of transmitted knowledge from teacher to disciple, becomes almost a constitution.
- The Nāth Sampradaya Lineages
That is the strange and magnificent centre of the Nāth Sampradaya, the order of Śaiva yogis this article maps.