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TANTRALOKA
Abhinavagupta's magnum opus, a commentary on Malinivijayottara Tantra, and an expansion of its precepts, appears here for the FIRST TIME in English online. Authored by a noted Tantrik mystic and aesthetic philosopher, for centuries this volume was only available in its native script. In the early 2000s a translation began to get published that was cut short. Mark D's working on another that's in limbo. After I started tripfagging, it came out in English in full translation, but was prohibitively expensive for most.
This is the first time, ever, that a complete English edition is appearing online.
The two extant translations leave...something to be desired. The earlier, abandoned, translation is more precise and technical. It cuts twilight language better. The other later one (chapters 5-37), is rather weaker. Some readings are questionable and some twilight language goes unparsed. If all else fails, it's interlinear, so get to work on learning that Middle-Late Classical Kashmiri Sanskrit dialect.
But we have help. Chapter 29, “The Kula Ritual”, was published by Dupuche. It's a massive, detailed, and complex rendering of the central rite of the Uttara Kaula Trika. Sanderson's “Mandala and Identity in Agamic Identity in Trika of Kashmir” is shorter, but clearer.
But these do not impart all mantras. For help I recommend:
Manblunder.
Kamakotimandali.
Manasataramgini.
Included in this update are:
>Tantraraja Tantra
>Malinivijayottara Tantra (shitty 1956 edition. I can have a copy and may scan it, but...why do we need MVJT when we have TL?)
All new material appears in:
>Eastern>Saivism>Abhinavagupta (Uttara Kaula Trika)
I am now working to obtain and scan Svaccharanda Tantra, another that has recently been published in English but appears nowhere online.