Tantra · Shaiva
Brahmayamala
Also called the Picumata, the earliest surviving witness to the fourfold classification of the Bhairava canon, and the text that places the Svacchandatantra at the head of the Vidyapitha. Its base manuscript, copied in Kathmandu in 1052, is the only complete copy outside which none is known to survive.
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- The two seats: how the tantric canon was actually organised Lineages
The Bhairava Tantras are usually described as divided into two seats or pithas: the Mantrapitha of the male mantra-deities and the Vidyapitha of the goddesses. The…