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"The Tantraloka was written in Kashmir (between 990 and 1014 CE )…. by the great Abhinavagupta, in it he expounds Anuttara Trika, the ‘most excellent’ form of Trika Shaivism....Tantrāloka is the masterwork of Abhinavagupta, who was in turn the most revered Kashmir Shaivism master. On account of its size and scope it is a veritable encyclopedia of nondual Shaivism, a treasure text containing the synthesis of the 64 monistic āgamas and all the schools of Kashmir Shaivism. The work contains both ritualistic and philosophic aspects, spanning over 37 chapters. Chapter 29 is entirely dedicated to the so-called kula-chakra - a tantric practice which includes ritualized sexual activity. Abhinavagupta also wrote a condensed version of Tantrāloka named Tantrasāra. The whole work has been translated into Italian by Raniero Gnoli..there is commentary on the Buddhist Kalachakra in the sixteenth chapter of the Kashmiri Shaivite tantra text Tantraloka, written by the Kashmiri pandit Abhinavagupta c.990 AD....."....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantraloka
"Abhinavagupta, a leading figure in Kashmir Saivism, is increasingly being recognized as one of the chief contributors to the evolution of Indian thought. In his encyclopaedic work, the Tantraloka, 'Light on the Tantras', he describes the various tantras of his day and places at their apex the most extreme of them, the Kula ritual, which proposes the use of wine and meat and intercourse with women of the lower castes.....Abhinavagupta breaks down the dualism between sacred and profane, ritual and ordinary life .....the most esoteric chapter 29 of the Tantraloka, containing the secret Kulayaga....http://www.exoticindiaart.com
"Aham, a concept of Kashmir Shaivism, is defined as the supreme heart (hṛdayam), transcendent Self, supreme I awareness or infinite consciousness. The space of Aham is where kechari mudra (free movement in the space of the heart) is realised. Kechari mudra is considered the supreme state of spiritual evolution……When Śiva wants to create, the first step is said to be the creation of an interior space (the space of his heart) - a matrix of energies that will be the substrate of the new world. "…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaula#The_Heart
"When one looks at Tara, Kali, Cinnamasta-Vajrayogini, Kalachakra-Anandabhairava, compares the Kula ritual to Vajrayana, etc. it would be the height of absurdity to think these grew up side-by-side without influencing each other or deriving one from the other (or most likely from a shared root).".....http://www.vajracakra.com
Abhinavagupta The Kula Ritual (As Elaborated in Chapter 29 of the Tantraloka)......"The Kula ritual leads the practitioner to ever more exalted stages of the mantra finally to reach the highest level of consciousness, the experience of mantravyapti, the 'pervasion of the mantra'. The person who knows this pervasion knows that he is Bhairava. The supreme mantra of consciousness is none other than the mantra SAUH, the supreme goddess Para, which expresses both the supreme reality and all manifested reality. In this way Abhinavagupta breaks down the dualism between sacred and profane, ritual and ordinary life so that the Kula practitioner is liberated while alive, his every act is worship and his every word is mantra."
http://www.exoticindiaart.com/book/details/abhinavagupta-kula-ritual-as-elaborated-in-chapter-29-of-tantraloka-IDE047/
"Maithuna or Mithuna is a Sanskrit term used in Tantra most often translated as sexual union in a ritual context. It is the most important of the five makara and constitutes the main part of the Grand Ritual of Tantra variously known as Panchamakara, Panchatattva, and Tattva Chakra....
Theory and Practice of Yoga : 'Essays in Honour of Gerald James Larson......edited by Knut A. Jacobsen
"The Kalachakra Tantra recommends the consumption of the meat of various taboo animals..... (In: John Ronald Newman - The outer wheel of time: Vajrayana Buddhist cosmology in the Kalacakra Tantra - Madison 1987, 266 f.)."
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John Hopkins.....Northern New Mexico….September 2014
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