vijnana
विज्ञान vijñānaDiscerning intelligence or understanding. In the Taittiriya Upanishad the vijnanamaya kosha is the sheath of intellect, lying inward of the mind.
Where this term appears
- The 64 Śākta Tantras Lineages
The Vijñāna Bhairava , a Trika text framed as a chapter of the shadowy Rudrayāmala , is a jewel: a hundred and twelve or so dhāraṇās , centering techniques, each a doorway to the infinite consciousness the trad…
- The Vijnana Bhairava Tantra Lineages
It is called the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra , and it is one of the most extraordinary texts in the whole of Indian religion — a short, luminous work of the Kashmir Shaiva tradition that may be the most practical p…
- What is Kashmir Shaivism? Philosophy
The Vijnana Bhairava Tantra , a treasured text of the tradition, is essentially a long catalogue of such doorways, more than a hundred meditations on the gaps where consciousness shows itself.
- Who is Bhairava? Deities
This is where the classic Kashmiri text belongs, the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra , a manual of over a hundred meditations, each one a doorway into that Bhairava-consciousness.
- Who is Parvati? Deities
In the Agamas and the Tantras she is the one who asks: the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra opens with the Devi's question, and Shiva's hundred and twelve answers are the scripture.
- Not This, Not This Treatise
Within that the vijnanamaya kosha , made of vijnana , understanding or discerning intelligence.
- The Aitareya Upanishad: the Self that entered through the skull Treatise
…roll is worth hearing: samjnana , consciousness; ajnana , perception; vijnana , discrimination; prajnana , intelligence; medhas , wisdom; drishti , insight; dhriti , steadfastness; mati , thought; manisha , tho…
- The Fierce Guardians Treatise
The greatest text of this tradition, the Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra , is framed as the Goddess asking Bhairava — that is, asking ultimate reality in its most intimate voice — how the infinite may be entered, and r…