Home›Initiatory Practices›Obligation›Undertaken only with authorisation or transmissionBrowse ByUndertaken only with authorisation or transmissionThis page groups practices by whether they are a required duty or a voluntary devotion. Wikipedia notes that cultus "implies the necessity of active maintenance beyond passive adoration," a distinction between merely believing and actually being obliged to act. Browsing this way lets a visitor separate a commanded practice from one an adherent may take up or leave off freely.FactsLearn MoreUndertaken only with authorisation or transmissionSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsOverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedPreparations and disciplines undertaken to enter, or in the course of entering, a status a tradition confers by transmission - preliminary practices before tantric instruction, formal ordination, the seeking of a vision under a people's own law. The atlas records that they exist and on whose authority; it does not set out what is transmitted, which in several of these traditions is closed. 2Contested UseContested or Appropriated Modern UseWell-attestedSourced to the subject's own accountSeveral practices grouped here are closed by the traditions that hold them and have been widely imitated by people without standing. The Lakota Summit V declaration of June 1993 objected by name to the conduct of the vision quest by outsiders. A published ethnographic account is a description, not a licence. 3DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedPractices 1StatusStanding as a Comparative CategoryWell-attestedA standard analytic category in the study of religion 2Learn MoreThe initiatory practices This group gathers initiatory practices, the rites and disciplines by which a person is admitted into a tradition, order or stage of spiritual life, marking a passage from outsider to insider or from one level of attainment to the next. The browser will find initiatory practices from various traditions. The entries describe each practice's form and meaning, noting the tradition and the transition it marks.Undertaken only with authorisation or transmissionFilter Results3 entriesOrigin Period Start YearAll1100 (1)Solitary or CommunalAllPerformed alone (1)Performed by a gathered group (2)TraditionAllEastern Orthodoxy (1)Roman Catholicism (1)Tibetan Buddhism (1)Category of PracticeAllInitiatory (1)Who Performs ItAllInitiates only (1)The candidate undergoing the rite (1)Trained or authorised specialists (1)Practice StatusAllLiving tradition, practised today (2)Scholarly StandingAllA standard analytic category in the study of religion (3)CadenceAllContinuous: a standing discipline, not an event (1)Once, or at a turning point in a life (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 3Ngondro (preliminary practices)Undertaken only with authorisation or transmissionOrdinationUndertaken only with authorisation or transmissionVision questUndertaken only with authorisation or transmissionSources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensionstier 1Catherine Bell, Oxford University Press, 1997Basic Genres of Ritual ActionView the Source3. Declaration of War Against Exploiters of Lakota Spiritualitytier 1Lakota Summit V, 1993the holders' own accountDivinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.