Our Lineage

Mahāmaheśvara Paramabhaṭṭāraka Sarvatantrasvatantra Vidyābhūṣaṇa Svāmī Śrī Premchetan Brahmacāri (Prem Chetan Brahmacāri) was born in Syangja district of Nepal. He studied in the gurukula of his guru, after whom he is named, located in Chisa Kola. Under the elder Premacaitanya (himself a disciple of the Jyotirmāṭh Śaṅkarācārya and Śrīvidyā siddha, Svāmī Brahmānanda Sarasvatī) he learned sādhanā, until when the guru passed on and the gurukula ceased to be active. He also learned from gurus Atmaram Parajuli and Rudranath Paudel in Pokhara. After spending many years in intensive sādhanā at Baglung Kālikā Bhagavatī Temple, he moved to Kathmandu, staying in a place just adjacent to Paśupatināth temple, where he learned further from Vidyāraṇya Svāmī (who was known after the way he playfully called himself, "Mūrkhāraṇya"), one of the greatest tantrics in all of the XXth Century. In Kathmandu, where he lived healing and helping people of all sorts, he was quite revered as a great Tantrika by those from the circle of nepalese tantrikas, and he was often on a visit by Royal dignitaries. He went on to teach the full structure of Sarvāmnāya Tantra to his disciple Sthaneshwar in the course of 14 years of training, including initiation and consecration into Trika, Kālīkrama, Śrīvidyā and Kubjikā streams of Kaula Tantra.

A Vedic paṇḍita and devoted Śaivite coming within a long lineage of Kālī priests, Tanka Prasad Timalsina ran a Vedic gurukula where his son, Sthaneshwar, was raised and taught the Śukla Yajurveda practised in their lineage. He was also Sthaneshwar's first Tantric guru, having given him his first Śaiva initiation, as well as practices of  Kālī  reflecting traces of the ancient Kaśmirī Krama tradition.

Rāmānanda Giri was a disciple of the great Maheśānanda Giri from Śaṅkara Māṭha in Mount Abu, India. Ācārya Sthaneshwar met him in Kathmandu and from that same day started learning Vedānta, Nyāya and Mīmāṁsā from him, which training continued in a daily basis for full 12 years. Ācārya Sthaneshwar also studied the Upaniṣads with paramguru Maheśānanda in Varanasi. Rāmanānda later became the founder of one of the best centers of traditional learning in the whole of Nepal, the Mahesh Sanskrit Gurukula in Devghat.

Vidyānāth Upādhyāya Bhaṭṭa is an important contemporary Sarvāmnāya Tantra master in the lineage of Lambarkana Bhaṭṭa - one of the most renowned masters of the Kālīkrama lineage in Nepal. Founder of the "Lambarkana Bhatta Institute of Tantric Studies" in Nepal, he is the author of several important works on Tantra. He was also taught by great pandita, Padma Prasad Bhattarai, twice winner of the All-India śāstrārtha. He taught Ācārya Sthaneshwar Timalsina Nyāya and Navya-Nyāya for many years.

Yogī Kṣiprānāth, publicly known as the Guru of Yogī Naraharināth, was one of the Mahāsiddhas of the era, known for his perfection on Yogic practices. Because of his simplicity, and his secluded character, he hardly came to the public, preferring his own dhūni in solitude. His simplicity and silence were the main traits through his he taught patience to his students. At Mṛgasthalī, he taught Haṭhayoga in all its aspects, as practised in the Nātha order, to Ācārya Sthaneshwar Timalsina.