Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra: Dharana and Altered-Consciousness Methods
- Date of account
- Usually dated broadly between the 8th and 12th centuries CE; exact date and sectarian context are disputed
- Location
- Kashmir and wider South Asia
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra presents numerous dhāraṇā methods using breath, sensory shocks, sound, emotion, spatial awareness, bodily suspension and transitions between ordinary mental states. Its aim is recognition of consciousness rather than laboratory verification of psi, but several techniques are relevant to research on absorption, altered states, present-moment awareness and unusual perceptual experiences. The text is valuable because it preserves a compact catalogue of practices with distinctive phenomenological triggers. Its date, relationship to Kashmir Shaivism and interpretive vocabulary remain debated.
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