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Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Inside the Dream of Vasistha | Prof. Sthaneshwar Timalsina

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Inside the Dream of Vasistha: The Fusion of Trika and Advaita Vedanta in the Yogavasistha by Prof. Sthaneshwar Timalsina

Dr. Sthaneshwar Timalsina received academic and philological training from Mahendra Sanskrit University in Kathmandu; Sampurnananda Sanskrit University in Varanasi; as well as Martin Luther University in Germany, where he acquired his Ph.D. in Classical Indian Philosophy. While working on his dissertation, Dr. Timalsina taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Washington University in St. Louis. Since 2005, he taught in both the Department for the Study of Religions and the Department of Philosophy at San Diego State University. He is currently the Endowed Chair of Indic Studies at Stony Brook University, New York in the Department of Asian & Asian American Studies.

​He has long dedicated himself to the goal of preserving the traditions he inherited in a modern, institutionalized way. This goal dates back to Acharya's time in Nepal, where he founded the Department of Tantric Studies at Nepal Sanskrit University in Kathmandu. Today, Acharya's work as a University Professor allows śāstric traditions to be brought to conversations in the global academic field.


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0:00.0

Good morning, everyone from a snowy and very chilly New York.

0:16.4

I'm Diane Crawford, president of VSNY.

0:20.8

We are so glad that our speaker today, Professor I'm Diane Crawford, president of VSNY.

0:21.3

We are so glad that our speaker today,

0:24.3

Professor Svano Chuanishua Thielmarsina,

0:28.9

has agreed to transfer his normally scheduled talk

0:32.8

at our center to Zoom.

0:35.6

The professor is the Nirmal Kaye and Augustina Matu endowed chair in classical

0:42.3

Indic humanities at Stony Brook University's College of Arts and Science, Department of Asian and Asian-American Studies, and an esteemed traditionally concentrated teacher of Shaiva Shaktha Hindu Tantra.

1:02.0

From 2005 to 2023, he served as professor of religious studies and philosophy at San Diego State University.

1:15.4

He completed his PhD from Martin Luther University in Halle, Germany, with a focus on the history of Advida philosophy.

1:26.7

His areas of teaching and research include classical

1:31.4

Hindu, Buddhist, and Jane literature and philosophies, with a specific focus on consciousness

1:39.3

studies. His first book, Consciousness in Indian Philosophy, is a comparative study of Advaita and Buddhist understandings of the self and consciousness.

1:52.9

He also works in the area of tantric studies and his recent publications, Tantric visual culture, a cognitive approach and language of images,

2:06.1

visualization and meaning in Tantras, explore the cognitive and cultural domains of Tantric visualization.

2:16.7

He has published more than 80 articles in the areas of Hindu philosophy,

2:22.3

tantric studies, yoga studies, and comparative philosophy. In 2019, he launched the V.Marsha Foundation,

2:32.2

which hosts free semester-length courses on classic texts

2:38.0

of the tantric tradition and offers many free video and Britain teachings.

2:44.0

The subject of his talk today is inside the dream of Vasistah, the fusion of Trika and Advaita Vedanta in the Yoga Vasista.

2:57.6

Would everybody please hold your questions until the end of the talk, at which point the professor will invite you to raise your hand. Please do not put your questions in chat.

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