About Dr. Mark Dyczkowski “As we penetrate in to the teachings, we will in turn be penetrated by the essence of who we are most fundamentally”

Dr. Mark Dyczkowski is one of the world’s foremost scholars on

Tantra and Kashmiri Trika Shaivism and has lived and worked in

India for close to forty years. Both a scholar and a practitioner, he

was initiated by the great Indian teacher Swami Laksmanjoo in the

year 1976. He has an undergraduate degree from Banaras Hindu

University and a Ph.D. from Oxford University, where he

researched Kashmir Shaivism under the guidance of Professor

Alexis Sanderson. Mark has published extensively including the 12

volume Manthanabhairava Tantra and is considered to be one of

the world’s leading authorities on Tantric Shaivism. He is affiliated

with several major academic institutions in India and has lectured

in Universities in Europe, the States and India.

In addition to his academic pursuits, Mark has studied sitar throughout this period, and his present teacher is

the great maestro Budhadiya Mukherjee. During these years of musical study he collected over 1,500

compositions for sitar, and, since the mid 1970s, has given public performances in many countries, including

India. He has performed and lectured in several countries in Europe, Asia and the Americas, including the

United States. He is a well-known sitarist in Benares where he regularly performs in public and is highly

regarded there by the community of musicians and lovers of music.

Dr. Mark Dyczkowski lives in Varanasi on the ghats of the Ganges where he teaches students on Kashmiri

Shaivism and practices music.

OM SAUH PARAAYAI NAMAH

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