Shaktist

The latest, present period in the Shakta history of the temple has also had a hand in the upgradation of the dvarapalas.

Smriti literature includes the Dharmasutras, Itihasa (histories, including the epics Mahabharata and the Ramayana), Purana (18 books that focus on Shiva or Vishnu as the preferred supreme deity), Vedanga (six auxiliary disciplines for the understanding and tradition of the Vedas), Agama (the Vaishnava, Shaiva, and Shakta doctrines), and Darshana (philosophies--six in number, including the Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Sankhya, Yoga, Purva Mimamsa and Uttara Mimamsa) texts.

My use of it is in reference to those practice that have originated from any of the Indian tantric schools, such as the Kashmir Shaivite, Shakta, and Nath schools or orders.

Hindus, mainly in the South, follow the Shaivite, Vaishnavite, Shakta, Ghanapathi, Puranic, and Vedic schools.

Kundalini yoga teacher Shakta Kaur Khalsa will visit Asheville, NC in October as a "Healing Artist" at the Lake Eden Arts Festival and presenting "Radiant Child Yoga Teacher Training" for parents and instructors at Namaste Yoga & Healing Center in Downtown Asheville.

Such lingas are prevalent in later Shaiva and Shakta worship, where they are known as yonilingas.

The Shaivite, Vaishnavite, Shakta, Ghanapathi, Puranic, and Vedic schools were represented among Hindus mainly in the south.

Now, by engaging in an intimate rite of sexual intercourse, a man (shakta) and a woman (shakti) recreate the condition of Brahman before the separation happened.

Having been born in a Shakta family and being a lifelong student of Tantra and the Divine Feminine, I jumped at the chance to review this collection of 16 (by a strange coincidence [?] an auspicious number in the Indic goddess tradition) essays originating from a 2005 Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast conference at Claremont, California.

The Shaivite, Vaishnavite, Shakta, Ghanapath, Puranic, and Vedic schools are represented among Hindus.