The Seven Perceivers The root-text of the Trika school, The Final Triumph of the Phonemic Goddess (Mālinī-vijaya-uttara-tantra) presents a teaching on the seven types of sentient beings, the sapta-pramatrs, which are mirrored within each one of us as the seven […]
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Abhasa Theory
Abhasa Theory: The State of “External” Objects Investigating how the Act of Creation unfolds within us will take us on a little journey. In order to understand how an object of awareness manifests, we must understand the relation between the […]
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विज्ञानभैरव The Vijñānabhairava – the Bhairava of Consciousness – (sometimes spelled in a Hindicised way as Vigyan Bhairav Tantra) is a key text of the Trika school of Kashmir Shaivism in Sanskrit language. declares itself to be, a Trika teaching […]
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AbhinavaGupta is the seminal figure in the story of Kashmir Saiva Tantrism. His genius was to synthesize hundreds of seemingly disparate Tantras (scriptures). By the year 950, the many Tantras had shared themes, practices, and vocabulary, but not much doctrinal […]
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