Welcome to the Tantrāloka Home Study Program course on Tantrāloka Chapter Nine.
This course covers the verses of ninth 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 Nine:
The Relationship between Cause and Effect (kāryakāraṇabhāva) – Verses 1-48
A Description of the Sequence of the Principles (tattvakramanirūpaṇa) – Verses 49-60
The Impure Path and the nature of Impurity – Verse 61
The Nature of Mala – Verses 62-70
Impurity as an Obscuring Covering – Verses 71-84ab
The Nature of Impurity continued – Verses 84cd-88ab
Concerning Karman – Verses 88cd-89
The Karma of the Seven Perceivers – Verses 90-97ab
The Nature of Karma – Verses 97cd-141
The Nature of Māyā – Verses 142-147abc
Māyā – Verses 147cd-150ab
Māyā as the Night – Verses 150cd-151ab
Māyā as a Principle or Reality Level (tattva) – Verses 151cd-166ab
The Five Obscuring Coverings (kañcuka) – Verses 166cd-173
Kalā – the Force of Limited Agency – Verses 174-183
Discriminating between Māyā and the Individual Soul – Verses 184-191ab
Vidyā – Limited Cognitive Subjectivity – Verses 191cd-193
Perception within the Intellect – Verses 194-199ab
Rāga – the Principle of Attachment – Verses 199cd-201ab
Kāla – the Principle of Time – Verses 201cd-202ab
Niyati – the Principle of Necessity – Verses 202cd-213
The Sequence of Emanation of the Obscuring Coverings – Verses 214-220ab
Pradhāna – Fundamental Nature – Verses 220cd-221ab
The Guṇas – the Three Qualities of Nature – Verses 221cd-226
Buddhitattva – the Intellect – Verses 227-239
The Senses – Verses 240-252
The Organs of Action – Verses 253-271ab
The Subtle Elements born of the Tāmasika Ego – Verses 271cd-279ab
Tanmātras – the Subtle Elements – Verses 279cd-283ab
The Gross Elements – Verses 283cd-288
Earth – Verses 289-294ab
The Qualities of the Elements – Verses 294cd-314
Information on content and pricing:
| Content | Price | Buy | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tantrāloka Chapter IX | 37 lessons, approx. 53 hours in length | 150$ |  |
Course materials:
- PDF verses of Chapter 9, 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.
Course Price: $150 for 37 audio and video lessons and text with translation.