vamachara
वामाचार vāmācāraThe 'left-hand' path of tantra, which uses the five m's (panchamakara) literally in ritual.
Where this term appears
- Kamakhya: The Temple of the Goddess Temples
There is also vamachara , the "left-hand" path of Tantra, which uses what orthodox practice forbids and which made Kamakhya famous and feared.
- Do Aghoris really eat human flesh? Journal
The Aghori path belongs to the vamachara , the left-hand way of Tantra, which takes the very things orthodoxy forbids and turns them into instruments.
- What is Shaktism? Lineages
In the path called vamachara , the left-hand practice, the qualified initiate ritually uses five substances that ordinary religion forbids: the panchamakara , the five Ms, being wine, meat, fish, parched grain …
- What is Tantra? Lineages
Vamachara , the "left-hand" approach, is transgressive and, in certain rites, literal.
- Kameshvara - And The Four Acharas Treatise
…ayachara position skips the preparation that most practitioners need. Vamachara - the “left-hand” mode.
- Nyasa As Architecture Treatise
The Vamachara sub-lineages add specific operational elements to the nyasa sequence that the orthodox traditions do not perform.
- The Bengal Renaissance And Ramakrishna Treatise
Bama Khepa (1837-1911) at Tarapith continued the Vamachara sub-lineage transmission that Volume 4’s Chapter 7 walked.
- The Bengali Shakta And Vamachara Sub-Lineages Treatise
The left-hand path The Vamachara sub-lineages — the Vama Marga , the Left-hand Path lineages that Volume 3’s Chapter 6 context introduced — are the most distinctive of the Bengali Tantric sub-traditions, and th…