Shakta
शाक्त śāktaPertaining to Shakti; the tradition that worships the Goddess as the supreme reality and the active power of the divine.
Where this term appears
- What is Shaktism? Lineages
Smartas hold five deities as equal. And Shaktas centre the Goddess.
- 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
…of the deity's mantras and presence onto it, limb by limb, and in the Shakta form a jiva-nyasa that infuses the new body with the very life of the Goddess, sealing the identity of worshipper and worshipped.
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
The sentence is: the tantras are divided into five, Śaiva, Vaishnava, Shakta, Saura and Ganapatya.
- 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 64 Śākta Tantras Lineages
The 64 Śākta Tantras are the Goddess-centred tantric scriptures, named in a famous verse of the Saundaryalaharī. The number 64 is a traditional and symbolic…
- The Kularnava Tantra: The Kaula Path and the True Guru Lineages
… most authoritative Kaula scriptures, quoted again and again by later Shakta and Sri Vidya writers as a pramana , a source you could cite to settle a question.
- The Pāñcarātra Saṃhitās Lineages
The Pāñcarātra Saṃhitās are the Vaiṣṇava Āgama, the revealed scriptures governing much of Vishnu temple worship. The tradition counts 108 Saṃhitās, though more than…