Vidyapitha
vidyāpīṭhaThe Seat of the Vidyās, one class of the Bhairava tantras, named for the feminine vidyā-goddesses whose cults its scriptures carry. It is the transgressive, Kāpālika-associated stratum, and both the Brahmayāmala and the Jayadrathayāmala place themselves in it in their colophons. Most of the tantras preserved in Nepal that affiliate themselves to a seat belong to this one.
Where this term appears
- The Types of Tantra Lineages
The Vidyāpīṭha holds the Goddess-centred ones, vidyā being feminine and meaning, in these sources, a female mantra-deity.
- Kubjika and the Paschimamnaya: four origins Lineages
It is worth being careful about how this scheme relates to the older division of the tantric canon into the two seats, the Mantrapīṭha and the Vidyāpīṭha.
- Samaya: the fetter and who was spared it Lineages
Sanderson's earlier work had established a dense overlap between the Chakrasamvara corpus and the Shaiva Vidyapitha in the material on samayachara , the discipline of initiates in their post-initiatory conduct.
- The two seats: how the tantric canon was actually organised Lineages
…which the handbooks gloss as headed by the Svacchandatantra ; and the Vidyāpīṭha , the seat of the feminine vidyā -goddesses, the stratum from which much of later Śākta religion descends.