Vaishnavism
वैष्णवसम्प्रदाय vaiṣṇavaThe stream of Hinduism that worships Vishnu and his avatars, chiefly Rama and Krishna, centred on bhakti and shaped by the Alvars and the acharyas.
Explained in depth in What is Vaishnavism?Where this term appears
- Āgama and Veda: two revelations Lineages
As the Pāñcarātra article describes, Śaṅkara reads this passage as a rejection of the tantric Vaiṣṇava scripture.
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
…heir own canon of scriptures, known, like those of the Śaivas and the Vaiṣṇava followers of the Pañcarātra, as Saṃhitās.
- The Kularnava Tantra: The Kaula Path and the True Guru Lineages
The Kularnava Tantra ('the ocean of the Kula') is one of the most important and most quoted scriptures of the Kaula school of Tantra, a comprehensive manual of the…
- The Pāñcarātra Saṃhitās Lineages
The rites that bathe and clothe and feed Ranganatha, the reclining Vishnu, come in large part from the Pāñcarātra, the Vaiṣṇava branch of the tantric revelation.
- The Types of Tantra Lineages
Scriptures of the Śaivas, the devotees of Shiva, tend to be called Āgama ; those of the Śāktas, who worship the Goddess as ultimate, Tantra ; those of the Vaiṣṇavas, the devotees of Vishnu, Saṃhitā .
- The Vijnana Bhairava Tantra Lineages
The Vijnana Bhairava Tantra is a short, revered scripture of non-dual Kashmir Shaivism, cast as a dialogue in which the Goddess (Bhairavi) asks Bhairava, Shiva as…
- What are the Āgamas and Tantras? Lineages
Where Vishnu or Narayana reveals, it is called a Saṃhitā , "a collection," and the stream is Vaiṣṇava, its corpus known as the Pāñcarātra .
- What is Diksha? Lineages
Diksha is spiritual initiation: the formal rite by which a qualified teacher transmits a mantra, a lineage, and its saving power into a disciple. The tradition…