Friday, March 3, 2023

From Bhairava with love

 


The mysterious Vijnana-bhairava-tantra is, for whatever reason, the most translated Tantric text into the English language. Or pseudo-translated, as argued by Christopher Wallis in this interesting blog post. The commentaries aren´t much better, apparently! 

I think Wallis has uploaded an extended exegesis of the VBT on his YouTube channel, so I suppose would-be practitioners of the dark arts of divine mindfulness finally have something to go on, LOL. 

In the blog post, he gives a brief but good background to this medieval list of Kashmir Shaivism meditation techniques, named after the fierce form of Shiva. 

Will the real Vijnana-bhairava please stand up?

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