Shaiva Siddhanta
शैवसिद्धान्त śaiva-siddhāntaThe dualist, ritual-centred mainstream of tantric Shaivism, whose scriptural canon is the 28 Shaiva Agamas and whose theology turns on pati, pashu and pasha.
Where this term appears
- Āgama and Veda: two revelations Lineages
The Veda and the Āgama are the two revelations of Hinduism. The Veda is śruti, "heard," held to be authorless and eternal; the Āgama or Tantra is the revealed word…
- Bhuta Shuddhi: The Rite That Burns the Body to Ash Lineages
… most elaborated in the Shakta and Sri Vidya traditions, the parallel Shaiva Siddhanta ritual manuals prescribe their own bhuta shuddhi, which tells us the rite is not a Shakta peculiarity but a shared grammar …
- 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…
- 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 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…
- What is Diksha? Lineages
Nowhere is this stated more starkly than in the Shaiva Siddhanta, the dualist Shaiva school whose ritual manuals were edited in the twentieth century by scholars such as N.
- What is Shaivism? Lineages
In the Tamil south, the great school is Shaiva Siddhanta, and its whole system turns on three words: pati-pashu-pasha .
- What is Shaktipat? Lineages
The Shaiva Siddhanta of this period was a pan-Indian dualist school whose exegesis flourished particularly in Kashmir, and the theologians involved, Sadyojyoti, Narayanakantha, Bhatta Ramakantha, were Kashmiris…