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Swami Lakshman Joo (9 May 1907 – 27 September 1991), born Lakshman Raina and also called Lal Sahib by his followers, [1] was a mystic and scholar of Kashmir Shaivism. Biography [ edit ]
Tantrāloka was written in the 10th century and gained greater worldwide prominence towards the end of the 19th century with the publishing and distribution of the Kashmiri Series of Texts and Studies and prominence of Swami Lakshmanjoo, who taught the text and its oral tradition to scholars and seekers alike.
Mark S. G. Dyczkowski (29 August 1951 – 2 February 2025) was an English Indologist, musician, and scholar of Tantra and Kashmir Shaivism. [1] He has published multiple translations and commentaries, most notably the 12-volume Manthanabhairava Tantra [2] and an 11-volume Tantrāloka including the commentary by Jayaratha.
The result has been various poetic or free form renderings which fail to properly communicate the actual practices which are briefly outlined in the text. Two exceptions to this are Jaideva Singh's translation and Mark Dyczkowski's translation. [web 1] The various VBT translations include the following: Satyasangananda Saraswati, Swami (2003).
The Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, a chapter from the Rudrayamala Tantra, was introduced to the West by Paul Reps, a student of Lakshman Joo, by including an English translation in his book Zen Flesh, Zen Bones. Cast as a discourse between the god Shiva and his consort Devi or Shakti, it presents 112 meditation methods or centering techniques (dharanas).
Lakshman Joo (9 May 1907 – 27 September 1991), modern scholar of Kashmiri Shaivism Lakshmanananda Saraswati (1926 – 23 August 2008) Lalleshwari (c.1320 – 1392), Kashmiri literature
The first complete English translation of Tantrāloka was published by the Indologist Mark S. G. Dyczkowski in 2023 after 45 years of work. The last recognized master of the oral tradition of Kashmir Shaivism, Swami Lakshman Joo , gave a condensed version of the key philosophical chapters of Tantrāloka in his book, Kashmir Shaivism – The ...
Singh was a scholar in the Kashmir Saivism school of Indian philosophy, [7] [8] a subject he studied for many years with Swami Lakshman Joo in Kashmir. He prepared and published first-ever English and Hindi translations of a number of Shaivite scriptures. [9] Singh was appointed as the Chairman of the Uttar Pradesh Sangeet Natak Akademi in 1973.