After 45 years of spiritual, intellectual, and human labor, Dr. Mark Dyczkowski's translation of the Tantrāloka is complete. Eleven volumes contain the thirty-seven chapters with full, minutely accurate translation of both Abhinavagupta's great work and Jayaratha's essential commentary, working directly from manuscripts with extensive detailed notes drawn from the great Kashmiri masters themselves.
Explore comprehensive video and audio courses featuring Dr. Mark Dyczkowski's teachings on the Tantrāloka, complete with Sanskrit texts, translations, and detailed commentary. Perfect for students at any level seeking to penetrate the Heart of non-dualist Kashmiri Shaivism.
Its an introduction to the whole Tantrāloka concerned with transformative insight and the fundamental basis of all practice.
Realization of our true liberated nature in a flash of enlightenment profound exposition of the fifty forms of reflective awareness.
Exposition of the Twelve Kālīs with unpublished manuscripts from the earliest sources of Mahānaya and Mahārtha.
Exposition of Corporeal Means practices and the Wheel of Time (kālacakra)—the breath cycle containing all cycles of time.
The Path of Time with emergence of Mantra cycles, followed by the Path of Space describing 224 worlds.
The Most complete exposition of the thirty-six reality levels (tattva) and the seven levels of perceivers.
Five spheres of energies, cosmic body fashioning, internal Kaula worship, and Śiva's grace.
The rite of initiation from Mālinīvijayottara is the worship of Trika goddesses on the Trident.
Initiation into teacher's apprentice condition, worship of Twelve Kālīs, and series of specific initiations.
Occasional rites, the Foremost Sacrifice (Ādiyāga), and Kaula ritual from Trika Kaula and Krama Kaula sources.
Concluding chapters: Mantras compendium, Trident maṇḍalas, mudrās, entering one's own nature, and Abhinavagupta's biography.
Despite its length, every word is saturated with meaning. Every concept illumines a profound aspect of the Trika Shaivism it teaches. Abhinavagupta reveals an amazingly rich Trika Tantric vision of the oneness of the Great Light of Shiva consciousness overflowing with the astonishingly beautiful effulgence of its radiant manifestation.
The eleven volumes contain a full, minutely accurate translation of both Abhinavagupta's great work and the commentary by Jayaratha that must be read together with it. Dr. Dyczkowski has worked directly with manuscripts and has had occasion to make improvements to the published edition in Sanskrit.
The translation is furnished with extensive and very detailed notes drawn from the works of the great Kashmiri masters themselves. He also draws from Swami Laksmanjoo's teachings. Great care has been taken to maintain the most rigorous standards of modern scholarship.
May it benefit all, with Śiva's grace and Swami Lakshmanjoo's blessings.
