A TRIKA READING OF TRIPURĀ
The Kashmiri Trika ācārya Rajanaka Jayaratha (c. XIIIth Century), author of the Viveka commentary on Abhinavagupta’s Tantrāloka, also...
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The Trika Tradition Beyond Kashmir
The term "Kashmir Śaivism" has been a popular way of referring to the exegetical tradition of the Tantras developed in Kashmir, by...
Kṣemarāja's Bhairāvanukaranastava
Mahāmaheśvarācārya Kṣemarāja's Bhairāvanukaranastava, or his prayers of worship to Lord Bhairava (mainly in his Svacchanda form),...
The 5 Mahārtha Levels of Mastery
In what follows, we read Lilian Silburn describing the classification of five levels of Siddhas or perfected beings as comprehended in...
Principles of Mahārtha philosophy
The central philosophy constitutive of the Sarvāmnāya Tantra, around which all other philosophies are subsumed, is the Mahārtha, coming...
The Fusion of the Mystical and the Aesthetic in Tripurasundarī
Saundaryalaharī (SL), a devotional poem traditionally attributed to Śaṅkara, is one of the most revered and widely read texts with...
The myth of Śiva and Pārvatī
A reading of the classiccal myth of the wedding of Śiva and Pārvatī from the outlook of contemporary global concerns over humanity's...
Lord Amr̥teśa and the Tantric paradigms of healing and disease
A consideration of Tantric paradigms of healing and disease in the worship of Lord Amr̥teśa, according to Netra Tantra The highest goal...
Siddhilakṣmī and Nepalese Sarvāmnāya Tantra
Tantric worship of Siddhilakṣmī, which ties together the traditions of Kashmir and Nepal.