trika
त्रिक trikaThe 'triad'; the non-dual Shaiva tradition of Kashmir, named for its threefold structures (Shiva-Shakti-soul, and the three goddesses Para, Parapara, Apara).
Where this term appears
- What is Kashmir Shaivism? Philosophy
The names: Trika, Spanda, Pratyabhijna, Kula "Kashmir Shaivism" is a modern label, popularised in the twentieth century.
- The 28 Śaiva Āgamas Lineages
…a tantras, more monistic, more Śākta, more transgressive, home to the Trika and the Krama and the goddess-centred cults that fed Kashmir Śaivism and the Śākta Tantras.
- The 64 Śākta Tantras Lineages
Abhinavagupta's Trika synthesis in Kashmir folded Kali-cults into a single non-dual system; the Śrīvidyā absorbed Kaula elements freely.
- The Vijnana Bhairava Tantra Lineages
Within the family of Kashmir Shaiva schools it belongs to the Trika, the "threefold" tradition later synthesised by the great philosopher Abhinavagupta, and it breathes the air of the Kaula lineages, which soug…
- What is Shaktipat? Lineages
And it is worth saying that a living tradition combining Kaula initiation modes with Trika grace-theology is doing what living traditions do.
- What is Shaktism? Lineages
Alexis Sanderson, working from the manuscripts, distinguishes several distinct Shakta Tantric systems, among them the Trika, the Kalikula-Krama, the cult of Kubjika, and the Traipura-Srividya.
- What is Tantra? Lineages
…hilosophically dazzling is the non-dual Kashmir Shaivism, also called Trika , "the threefold." Its great synthesizer was Abhinavagupta, who flourished around 975 to 1025 CE and whose enormous Tantraloka , "Ligh…
- Who was Abhinavagupta? Lineages
He praises Shambhunatha as the sun that scattered the darkness of his ignorance, as the moon risen over the ocean of the Trika.