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Lectures on Hindu Tantra, Chauntra Monastic College, Himachal Pradesh, September 2011
First Lecture: What is Tantra? (PDF)
Second Lecture: Some Fundamental Conceptions of Tantra (PDF)
Third Lecture: Tantra as Text (PDF)
Fourth Lecture: Tantra as Practice: Ritual and Yoga (PDF)

Mantra und die Energie des Wortes bei Abhinavagupta. Die Ebenen der Sprache und ihre Bedeutung (PDF), in: Karl Baier / Regina Polak / Ludger Schwienhorst-Schönberger (Hg.): Text und Mystik. Zum Verhältnis von Schriftauslegung und kontemplativer Praxis, Vienna 2012

Publications

Abhinavagupta’s Hermeneutics of the Absolute: Anuttaraprakriya
An Interpretation of his Paratrisika Vivarana

Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, and D.K. Printworld, New Delhi, 2011

Samvidullasah
Manifestation of Divine Consciousness
Swami Lakshman Joo
Saint-Scholar of Kashmir Saivism — A Centenary Tribute

Edited by Bettina Bäumer & Sarla Kumar, New Delhi, (D.K. Printworld), 2007

Void and Fullness in the Buddhist, Hindu and Christian Traditions
Sunya – Purna – Pleroma

Co-editor with John R. Dupuche, New Delhi (D.K. Printworld) 2005

Trika: Grundthemen des kaschmirischen Sivaismus

Innsbruck-Wien (Tyrolia) 2003 (Salzburger Theologische Studien 21, interkulturell 1) (ed. by Ernst Fuerlinger), 2nd edition 2005 (Fundamental Themes of Kashmir Shaivism), 3rd edition 2008

Vijnana Bhairava: Das göttliche Bewusstsein
112 Weisen der mystischen Erfahrung im Shivaismus von Kashmir

(Sanskrit-Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar)

Grafing (Edition Adyar) 2003; new edition by Verlag der Weltreligionen, Frankfurt a.M. 2008

Editor of: Mysticism in Saivism and Christianity, New Delhi (D.K. Printworld), 1997.

Abhinavagupta
Wege ins Licht

Zürich (Benziger), 1992

Editor of: Abhinavagupta, Paratrisika Vivarana (transl. by J. Singh), Delhi (Motilal Banarsidass) 1988ff.

Swami Lakshman Joo the last great master of the tradition of nondualist Saivism of Kashmir (1907–1991)