The Muktabodha Translation Series is now well underway with the first two volumes expected in 2026, and we wholeheartedly thank the generous donors who have supported the translation of these two volumes. New translation proposals are under discussion, and we will share information about upcoming volumes as soon as we can. Donors are welcome to support new volumes, helping to fulfill Muktabodha’s goal to bring the wisdom contained in these texts to a broad audience now and far into the future.

Dr. Hamsa Stainton, Editor-in-Chief of the Series and a member of Muktabodha’s Academic Advisory Council has said, “It is such an honor and an inspiration to serve as the editor for this translation project! I am very grateful to Muktabodha for empowering scholars by directly supporting this translation work. I would encourage anyone interested in supporting this work to reach out to Muktabodha, and I would welcome the opportunity to discuss ideas, questions, and suggestions about future volumes. I look forward to many exciting updates and publications in the years ahead!”

In 2022, Muktabodha celebrated its 25th anniversary. To mark this significant milestone, the Institute initiated a long-term project to translate a series of select Sanskrit texts from its Digital Library collections into English. Altogether, Muktabodha aims to sponsor the translation and publication of 10 mainly untranslated Sanskrit texts originally published in the Kashmir Series of Texts and Studies (KSTS).
In 1911, the Research Department of the State of Jammu and Kashmir began publishing the KSTS, which made dozens of texts preserved in Kashmir available outside of the region for the first time. The KSTS was the most important influence on what was seen as a distinctly “Kashmirian” form of Śaivism, and it laid the foundation for all future discussions of what is often referred to as ‘Kashmir Śaivism.’ Many of the most influential and well-known works composed in Kashmir by some of the leading intellectuals of premodern India, such as Somānanda, Utpaladeva, Abhinavagupta, and Kṣemarāja, were published in the KSTS. However, fewer than half of these have been translated into English. This remains a major gap in the study of Śaivism and other religious, philosophical, and literary traditions in India.

The Translation Series will expand on the preservation work that Muktabodha has already accomplished. One of Muktabodha’s earliest contributions to Indological research was to provide scans and searchable e-text versions of the KSTS volumes to scholars worldwide. Muktabodha then published translations of the Paramārthasāra of Abhinavagupta and the Īśvarapratyabhijñākārikā of Utpaladeva, both important texts of Śaiva non-dualism published in the KSTS.

The Muktabodha Translation Series will serve a broad range of scholars and practitioners interested in the religious and philosophical traditions of Kashmir and, at the same time, provide access to these treasures of Indian thought to the world at large. It is Muktabodha’s intention to ensure that the volumes in this series are academically rigorous translations and yet accessible to a general audience.

Dr. Hamsa Stainton, the Series Editor, is a distinguished scholar of Indology at McGill University. Dr. Stainton brings extensive expertise in the study of Śaiva Tantra, and its Kashmirian expressions in particular, to bear on this project. The Muktabodha Translation Series will be published by the State University of New York Press, an outstanding academic publishing house with a long tradition of offering titles in Indian Religions and, in particular, Śaivism in Kashmir (and beyond).