Welcome to the Tantrāloka Home Study Program course on Tantrāloka Chapter Eleven.
This course covers the verses of eleventh chapter of Abhinavagupta’s Tantrāloka .
For the background on this text and its relationship to the larger topic of Kashmir Shaivism, please see the Program Overview on this site. You may also like to listen to the free course on Locating Trika, which provides historical overview.
Overview of Chapter Eleven:
The Path of the Forces:
The Forces and the Cosmic Eggs
The Nature of the Forces (kalāsvarūpa) 2-7
The Five Forces and the Cosmic Eggs 8-9ab
Supreme Śiva makes Himself Known 9cd-12ab
The Four Eggs 12cd-14ab
The Five Elements Pervading the Universe and Beyond 14cd-21ab
Supreme Śiva and Beyond
Supreme Śiva, the Thirty-seventh Principle 21cd-22ab
The Undefinable Thirty-eighth Principle 22cd-23ab
From the Thirty-sixth to the Thirty-eighth Principle and Back 23cd-28
The sensations of smell, taste and sight spanning the Tattvas up to Māyā and touch beyond to the supreme Light 29-32
The Energies of the Five Forces in relation to the Five Elements 33-34ab
The Six Paths
The Division into Three Principles 34cd-36
The Division into Nine Principles 37-38ab
Countless Initiations according to the Divisions of the Path 38cd-42ab
The Six Paths, Three Objective, Three Subjective 42cd-43
The Process of Differentiation of the Phonemes (varṇabhedakrama)
The Subjective Paths of Pada and Mantra 44-47
The Path of the Phonemes 48-50cd
The Contents of the Six Paths 50ef-53
The Path of Mantra within the Subject 54-57ab
The Path of Pada as the Means of Knowledge 57cd-59
The Paths of the Forces, Principles and Worlds in the Domain of Objectivity 60-61
The Path of the Phonemes in Pure Cognitive Consciousness 62-65ab
Phonemic Consciousness
Phonemic Consciousness as the ground of Linguistic Conventions 65cd-70ab (65cd-70)
The Numinous Aggregate of Letters as the Source of the Phenomenal Ones 71cd-73 (71-73ab)
Varṇa Noetic Conciousness (pramā), the ground of Language 74-76 (73cd-76ab)
Aesthetic Delight Heightened by the Development of Phonemic Consciousness 77 (76cd-77ab)
Merger of linguistic convention into Creative Intuition – Pratibhā 78-80 (77cd-80ab)
The Power of the Phonemes 81-82 (80cd-82ab)
The purification of the Six Paths of Noetic Consciousness, Subject, Object and Means of Knowledge 83-85 (82cd-85ab)
Six Stages in the Process of Purification 86-87ab (85cd-86)
The Application of the Purifying Mantras of the Anuttaratrika 87cd-93ab (87-92)
A Description of the Power that Sustains Everything (sarvādhāraśaktinirūpaṇa) 93cd-118ab (93-117)
Everything appears within Śiva like a Reflection or Image in a Dream or Notion of the Mind, it is Inscrutable Formless Consciousness 93cd-105ab (93-104cd)
The Relationship between the Sustainer and the Sustained 105cd-107ab (105-106)
Śakti is the Sustaining Ground (ādhārikā) 107cd-110ab (107-109)
All things, including Time and Space, are manifestations within Śiva 110cd-112ab (110-111)
Moments (kṣaṇa) do not Exist 112cd-115ab (112-114)
By His Freedom Śiva can Manifest What does not Exist, All is One with Him 115cd-118ab (115-117)
Information on content and pricing:
| Content | Price | Buy | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tantrāloka Chapter XI | 22 lessons, approx. 32 hours in length | 80$ |  |
Course materials:
- PDF verses of Chapter 11, translated by Dr. Mark Dyczkowski, printed in the original Sanskrit (both Devanagari script and transliterated to English), and English translation.
- Streaming videos of Dr. Dyczkowski teachings — not downloadable.
- Audio links — downloadable.
- Email support: If you have questions of a more personal or individualized nature, concerns about the course, or complex intellectual questions that go beyond the scope of the Facebook group, please email anuttaratrikakula3@gmail.com, and we will respond to your question confidentially and appropriately. For more advanced intellectual or content-related matters, we will forward your question to Dr. Dyckzowski to respond to you directly.