Tantraloka
तन्त्रालोक tantrāloka'Light on the tantras'; Abhinavagupta's encyclopedic synthesis of the Trika in 37 chapters, the central work of the non-dual Shaivism of Kashmir, preserved for us largely by Jayaratha's commentary.
Where this term appears
- The Vijnana Bhairava Tantra Lineages
…pta, systematising this world a couple of centuries later in his vast Tantraloka , sorted the paths to it into a famous scheme of "means," the upayas , graded not by difficulty but by how much of a handhold the…
- What is Diksha? Lineages
The classification of these grades is worked out in the Malinivijayottara Tantra and in Abhinavagupta's Tantraloka, and Sanderson has traced it in detail.
- What is Shaktipat? Lineages
…ntras' grace-bestowing power as gurudipita , kindled by the teacher ( Tantraloka 15.423), and the long recension of the Guru Gita carries the phrase dipo dipantaram yatha , one lamp lighting another, as a varia…
- What is Tantra? Lineages
…bhinavagupta, who flourished around 975 to 1025 CE and whose enormous Tantraloka , "Light on the Tantras," remains one of the summits of Indian thought.
- Who was Abhinavagupta? Lineages
In the closing verses of his largest work, the Tantraloka , the Light on the Tantras, Abhinavagupta records his own ancestry, and it begins somewhere else.
- What is Kashmir Shaivism? Philosophy
His Tantraloka , with Jayaratha's later commentary, is the encyclopaedic summa of Trika, and his shorter works distilled it for students.
- Who is Bhairava? Deities
Abhinavagupta, the great Kashmiri master of around the year 1000, reads the name apart, syllable by syllable, in his Tantrāloka .
- Who is Shiva? Deities
…, and reaches its height in Abhinavagupta around the year 1000, whose Tantrāloka is its summit.