Tantraloka Chapter 6

Welcome to the Tantrāloka Home Study Program course on Tantrāloka Chapter Six.

                                                                                                     

Trident3This course covers all 252 verses of the sixth chapter of Abhinavagupta’s Tantrāloka  that is concerning Kālacakra – the Cycle of the Breath and the Cycles of Time. 

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 Six:

The Temporal Means (kālopāya)

  • The Formation of Places and the Path of Time in the Flux of the Vital Breath – verses 1-6
  • Imperceptible Exertion – verses 50-51ab
  • Perceptible Exertion – verses 51cd-52
  • Time, Kālī and the Origin of the Breath – verses 7ab-22ab
  • Tying the Top Knot according to the Triśirobhairavatantra – verses 22cd-46ab
  • The Measure of the Movement of the Vital Breath (cāramāna) – verses 46cd-47ab
  • Perceptible and Imperceptible Exertion and Movement of the Breath – verses 47cd- 49
  • The Energies of the Lord, the Self and the Vital Breath – verses 53-54
  • The Impelling Force of the Vital Breath – verse 55
  • Vāmā, Jyeṣṭhā and Raudrī – verses 56-62cd
  • The Conception of Night and Day and the Transits (of the Sun) – verse 63
  • A Day and a Night – verses 64-66ab
  • The Planets and Constellations in the Breathing Cycle – verses 66cd-75
  • A Month projected into the Breathing Cycle – verses 76-114ab
  • The Year – verses 114cd-115ab
  • The Equinox – verses 115cd-185ab
  • Time in the other Vital Breaths
  • Apāna – the Inhaled Breath – verses 185cd-195ab
  • Samāna – the Equalizing Breath – verses 195cd-196ab
  • The Nāḍīs – the Channels of the Breath – verses 196cd-211ab
  • Udāna – the Ascending Breath – verses 211cd-213
  • Vyāna  – the Pervasive Breath – verses 214-216
  • The Emergence of the Phonemes in the Breath
  • Superior Supreme Emergence of the Phonemes as Unstruck Sound – verses 217-218
  • Inferior Supreme Emergence of the Letters – The Flux of the Phonemes – verses 219-225ab
  • The Gross Subtle Emergence of the Letters – verses 225cd-227ab
  • The Vyomavyāpin Mantra – verses 227cd-230ab
  • The Supreme Emergence of the Phonemes in the Breath – verses 230ab-237
  • The Supreme Subtle Emergence of the Phonemes – verses 238-239
  • Gross Emergence of the Letters in the Breath – verses 240-251cd

Information on content and pricing:

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Tantrāloka Chapter VI39 lessons, approx. 60 hours in length150$button1up

 

Course materials:

  • PDF of Chapter 6, 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 39 audio and video lessons and text with translation.

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