Agama · Tantra
The Agamas
The revealed scriptures of temple ritual and Tantric practice; each Shaiva, Vaishnava, and Shakta school draws on its own.
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- What is Puja? Worship
…e medieval period as worked out in distinct bodies of revealed texts, the Agamas and related literature, each belonging to a sectarian stream with its own theology and its own procedure.
- What is a Mantra? Worship
A mantra is a sacred sound, syllable, word, or verse, held in the mind or on the tongue and used in worship and meditation. The word comes from the Sanskrit root…
- Sri Vidya: The Sacred Knowing Treatise
A monk in 9th-century Kashmir writes a book that contains, for the first time on this planet in any written record, the construction instructions for the Sri Yantra…