New publication by PhD researcher, Christian de Vietri
It is with great pleasure that we announce the release of a new publication written by one of the School’s PhD researchers titled, TRIKA MAṆḌALA PRAKĀŚA: Illuminating the mandalas of Abhinavagupta’s Tantrāloka
Maṇḍala, in the highest sense, is the all-encompassing unbroken sphere of the Absolute, the one complete, indivisible whole from which everything arises and into which everything dissolves.
de Vietri p. 13
Written and illustrated by the artist Christian de Vietri, Trika Maṇḍala Prakāśa is the first comprehensive presentation of all Trika mandala designs described by the great Kashmiri theologian Abhinavagupta in his 10th-century magnum opus, the Tantrāloka. Each meticulously translated and decoded configuration is elegantly displayed verse-by-verse in full colour with precise measurements. The 430 images that make up this unique large-format work of art and scholarship are contained within a textual exposition that situates them historically, philosophically, and spiritually while providing context for their contemporary application.
A most significant contribution not only to the scholarship and practice of Trika and Śilpa traditions but also to research on the interplay between form and awareness in consciousness science.
Subhash Kak
