Trika

Schematic drawing of the mandala triśūlābjmaṇḍala of the Trika school (mandala of the trident & the lotus)

Trika ("triad") (Devanagari: त्रिक), religious tradition of mystical Hinduism.

Quotes on the Trika:

• The trika is the essence of the śaiva tradition, and the Mālinī is the essence of the trika. (Abhinavagupta)
• In the Trika the god Śiva mostly appears in the hypostasis of Bhairava. (Raniero Gnoli)
• Since all aspects of reality are in fact nothing more than the rhythms of divine energy and its all-pervading vibration, the Trika and Kaula systems do not contrast matter with spirit, body with soul, microcosm with macrocosm , but they recognize only one original rhythm that propagates freely from level to level. (Lilian Silburn)

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