Tantraloka
Abhinavagupta's vast synthesis of the Kashmir Shaiva tantras, the towering work of non-dual Shaiva thought, read in Srividya through Jayaratha's commentary.
A quick reference entry. For the full account, follow the guides below.
Appears in
- Sri Vidya: The Sacred Knowing Treatise
A monk in 9th-century Kashmir writes a book that contains, for the first time on this planet in any written record, the construction instructions for the Sri Yantra…
- The Kashmir Foundation Treatise
The text he was writing was the Tantraloka — the Illumination of the Tantras .
- 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.
- The two seats: how the tantric canon was actually organised Lineages
The Bhairava Tantras are usually described as divided into two seats or pithas: the Mantrapitha of the male mantra-deities and the Vidyapitha of the goddesses. The…