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.

Dr. Dyczkowski serves as the Academic Advisor to the Muktabodha Digital Library Project and is responsible for curating the collection of texts from the Shaiva Agama and Tantra and related traditions. He oversees a small team of typists in Varanasi who are creating searchable electronic texts from microfilms or photocopies of the source materials. For more information on how these texts are created, and to access them, please visit the Digital Library webpage.