Welcome to the Tantrāloka Home Study Program course on Tantrāloka Chapter Seven.

This course covers the seventh chapter of Abhinavagupta’s Tantrāloka .

For the background on this text and its relationship to the larger topic of Kashmir Shaivism, please see the Program Overview on this site.  You may also like to listen to the free course on Locating Trika, which provides historical overview.

Overview of Chapter Seven: 

• The Arising of the Cycles (cakrodaya)
• The Various Types of Cycles (of Mantras linked to the rhythm of the breath), Mantras and Vidyās (mantravidyābhid).

Course materials:

• PDF of Chapter 7, translated by Dr. Mark Dyczkowski, printed in the original Sanskrit (both Devanagari script and transliterated to English), and English translation.

• Streaming videos of Dr. Dyczkowski teachings — not downloadable.

• Audio links — downloadable.

• Email support: If you have questions of a more personal or individualized nature, concerns about the course, or complex intellectual questions that go beyond the scope of the Facebook group, please email anuttaratrikakula3@gmail.com, and we will respond to your question confidentially and appropriately.  For more advanced intellectual or content-related matters, we will forward your question to Dr. Dyckzowski to respond to you directly.