Mantra: Theory and Practice of Mantra in Kashmir Shaivism | Prof. Sthaneshwar Timalsina
Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Society of New York
4.8 • 714 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2025
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
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, everybody and welcome. |
| 0:19.9 | We're very happy to welcome again this morning, Dr. Staniswara, Timoslana, the |
| 0:25.7 | Nirmal Kay and Augustina Matu endowed chair in classical Indic Humanities at Stony Brook University's |
| 0:34.1 | College of Arts and Science, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies. |
| 0:40.6 | He is an esteemed traditionally consecrated teacher of Shiva Shaka, Hindu, Tantra. |
| 0:47.7 | From 2005 to 2023, Dr. Timalcina served as professor of religious studies and philosophy at San Diego State University. |
| 1:03.0 | He completed his PhD from Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, with a focus on the history of advisor philosophy. |
| 1:13.6 | His areas of teaching and research include classical Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain Literature, |
| 1:21.6 | and Philosophies, with a specific focus on consciousness studies. His first book, Consciousness in Indian Philosophy, |
| 1:31.3 | is a comparative study of Advaita and Buddhist understandings |
| 1:35.3 | of the self and consciousness. |
| 1:38.3 | He also works in the area of Tantric studies and his recent publications, tantric visual culture, a cognitive |
| 1:47.0 | approach, and languages of images, visualization, and meaning in tantras. Explore the cognitive |
| 1:56.0 | and cultural domains of tantric visualization. He has published more than 80 articles, probably more, since I got this, |
| 2:05.2 | in the areas of Hindu philosophy, tantric studies, yoga studies, and comparative philosophy. |
| 2:13.3 | In order to disseminate philosophical knowledge distilled from the various Hindu schools of thought, |
| 2:20.4 | he launched the Vimarsha Foundation in 2019, which hosts free semester-length courses |
| 2:27.8 | on classic texts of the tantric tradition and offers many free videos and written teachings. |
| 2:37.1 | The subject of his talk today is mantra, a talk on the theory and practice of mantra in Kashmir Shaivism. |
| 2:47.2 | We're so happy to see you again. |
| 2:50.7 | Sumbartah, mandalaantthe, Kramapada-Nhiata-Nanda-Sakti-Subhima. |
| 2:57.6 | Srishti Nyay, Chalukhākha-Kam, panchakum, chanya-satkan, |
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