tilaka
तिलक tilakaA devotional and sectarian mark worn on the forehead at the brow, in bhasma, sandalwood or red powder, marking the wearer's sampradaya and devotion.
Where this term appears
- Reading the Tilaka: Forehead Marks Explained Deities
The mark is the tilaka , and learning to read it opens a quiet layer of the living tradition that most visitors walk straight past.
- What the bindi actually means Journal
It is not the tilaka Here a distinction matters, because the two are constantly confused.
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
Saura rites are found in the tantras in many forms, he writes, and he names them, the Bhuvaneshi, the Chaturakshara, the Prayojana, the Tilaka.
- The Four Streams of Hinduism Essentials
The mark is the urdhva pundra , a vertical or U-shaped tilaka drawn in sandal or pale clay, rising upward, tracing the foot of Vishnu.
- The history, and the shadow it works on Treatise
By the time of the great digests, the Sharada Tilaka and, in the sixteenth century, the Mantra Mahodadhi, the remnant-lord had his recorded mantra and worship, and the doxographers who catalogued the sects, Ana…
- The mantra withheld Treatise
The Sharada Tilaka and the digests that record the seed-mantra also preserve the means of its awakening, and they assume a teacher to apply them.
- The Body, Crown To Feet Treatise
The forehead bears the tilaka , the central mark in kasturi paste, which the tradition reads as the bindu - the point at the centre, the third eye, the location from which the jnana-shakti the second city of Tr…