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Author : Abhinavagupta (Rājānaka)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788187471868
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (718 download)
Download or read book Abhinavagupta's Śrī Tantrāloka and Other Works written by Abhinavagupta (Rājānaka) and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Abhinavagupta (Rājānaka)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788186117224
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Tantrasāra written by Abhinavagupta (Rājānaka) and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treatise on Trika philosophy of Kashmir Saivism.
Author : Swami Lakshmanjoo
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781976547218
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (472 download)
Download or read book Light on Tantra in Kashmir Shaivism: written by Swami Lakshmanjoo and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-23 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This profound text is concerned with the philosophy and practice known as Kashmir Shaivism. On account of its size and scope it is a veritable encyclopedia of non-dual Shaivism.Why was the Tantraloka written? In answer to this question Abhinavagupta tells us that, although in the schools of Kashmir Shaivism there are many wonderful and important ways and methods for attaining the supreme reality, yet in his time not even one was still existing. All of those ways and methods were lost. It is for this reason that he was requested by his colleagues and disciples to create a text that would illuminate and clarify all of these ways and methods of Kashmir Shaivism. To accomplish this, Abhinavagupta composed the Tantraloka, a text, which he tells us is filled with the complete explanation of the ways and methods associated with Kashmir Shaivism. That is to say that the philosophical understanding on the level of the intellect might have been existing, but the actual practical means or methods to be used to attain the supreme reality - oneness with Universal Being - to which they all pointed was lost. Abhinavagupta was intent, therefore, to revive the true understanding of these very important teachings, to make the practices that they embodied live again. For what is the use of a map if you have no way to reach the destination? Thus, Abhinavagupta gave us the Tantraloka to remedy this situation.The Tantraloka is composed of thirty seven chapters (ahnikas). Each chapter has it's own distinct topic. In this present volume - chapter one - Abhinavagupta lays the groundwork for the rest of his Tantraloka. Here are some of the topics Abhinavagupta examines in the first chapter: - The important Masters of the schools of Kashmir Shaivism. - The differentiated perception of all the means and methods (upayas). - The difference between knowledge, ignorance and liberation. - The essence of what is to be recognized, i.e., the real object to be known. - The oneness of Shiva and His energy (Shakti). - Introduction to the means and methods (upaya) for attaining full and pure knowledge where you perceive your nature as one with the universe. - True liberation in Kashmir Shaivism. - A discussion of the four states of means (upayas).- Three variations of absorption or trance (samavesha) as mentioned in the Malinivijaya Tantra. - The contents of each of the thirty seven chapters of Tantraloka.
Author : Douglas Renfrew Brooks
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791497682
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Auspicious Wisdom written by Douglas Renfrew Brooks and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1992-10-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rooting itself in Kashmir Shaivism, Śrividyā became a force in South India no later than the seventh century, and eventually supplanted the Trika as the dominant Tantric tradition in Kashmir. This is the first comprehensive study of the texts and traditions of this influential school of goddess-centered, Śākta, Tantrism. Centering on the goddess's three manifestations—the beneficent deity Lalita Tripurasundari, her mantra, and the visually striking sricakra—Śrividyā creates a systematic esoteric discipline that combines elements of the yogas of knowledge, of devotion, and of ritual. Utilizing canonical works, historical commentaires, and the interpretive insights of living practitioners, this book explores the theological and ritual theories that form the basis for Śrividyā practice and offers new methods for critical and comparative studies of esoteric Hinduism.
Author : John R. Dupuche
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Abhinavagupta written by John R. Dupuche and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abhinavagupta, a leading figure in Kashmir Saivism is increasingly being recognised as one of the chief contributors to the evolution of Indian thought. In his encyclopaedic work the Tantraloka 'Light on the Tantras' he describes the various tantras of his day and places at their apex the most extreme of them, the Kula ritual which proposes the use of wine and meat and intercourse with women of the lowest castes. In Abhinavagupta's esteem of the Kula ritual just the shodow side of genius an aberration best forgotten? This work is a translation-the first into english of any chapter of the Tantraloka of Abhinavagupta's version of the Kula ritual.
Author : Jeffrey S. Lidke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788124608760
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (87 download)
Download or read book The Goddess Within and Beyond the Three Cities written by Jeffrey S. Lidke and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Abhinavagupta
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN 13 : 9788120804722
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Para-trisika-Vivarana of Abhinavagupta written by Abhinavagupta and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 1988 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Paratrisika (or Paratrimsika) is a short Tantra which has been held in the highest esteem by Kashmir Saivism or Trika. After Somananda, Abhinavagupta has written two commentaries on it, a short one (Laghuvrtti) and an extensive one the present Vivarana which is presented here for the first time in an English translation. The Paratrisika Vivarana is one of the most fascinating but also most difficult texts of the Kashmir Saiva School, and of the mystical philosophical literature of India as a whole. It deals with Ultimate Reality (anuttara or para) and with the methods of realization, centred above all in the theory and practice of the mantra. Abhinavagupta displays here his great exegetical genius and presents a penetrating metaphysics of language, of the Word (vak) and its various stages in relation to consciousness. His language reflects in a luminous fashion the mystical experience contained in this text. The present translation of Abhinavagupta`s masterpiece will not only be a milestone in the study of Kashmir Saivism, but it also makes available one of the major mystical texts of the Indian tradition to readers interested in philosophy and spirituality Contents Preface by Bettina Baumer, List of Abbreviations, PART I: Paratrisika-Vivarana of Abhinavagupta: Translation with notes, Prelimiaries, Verse 1 of Paratrisika, Commentary, Different implications of the Word Devi, The rationale of the past tense in 'said', The final Resting Place of all questions and answers, Sixteen interpretations of anuttara, Interpretation of Kaulika-siddhidam, Exposition on verse 1 and Commentary, Etad guhyam mahaguhyam.. text and commentary, PART II: Paratrisika-Vivarana: Sanskrit Text, Index of Half-Verses of Paratrisika, Index of Quotations
Author : John Hughes
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1434325164
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (343 download)
Download or read book Kashmir Shaivism written by John Hughes and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark S. G. Dyczkowski
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120805958
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (59 download)
Download or read book The Canon of the Śaivāgama and the Kubjikā Tantras of the Western Kaula Tradition written by Mark S. G. Dyczkowski and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1989 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABOUT THE BOOK:This book serves as an introductory study of Tantric Saivism in its original scriptural sources. It traces the features and content of the canon of the Saiva Tantras, making use of many unpublished manuscripts from Kashmiri Saiva author
Author : Abhinavagupta
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791401804
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (18 download)
Download or read book A Trident of Wisdom written by Abhinavagupta and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I have prepared a trident of Wisdom in order to cut asunder their bondage." -- Abhinavagupta This is a long commentary on a short Tantra. One of the most authoritative and venerated texts in Kashmir Shaivism, it deals with the nature of Ultimate Reality and with methods of realization focusing on the theory and practice of Mantra. Abhinavagupta presents his metaphysics of language, of the Word (Vak), and its relation to consciousness. He calls it, "trikasastra-rahasya-upadesa: The teaching of the secret of the Trika doctrine."
Author : Andre Padoux
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199982325
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book The Heart of the Yogini written by Andre Padoux and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: André Padoux offers the first English translation of the Yoginihrdaya, a seminal Hindu tantric text dating back to the 10th or 11th century CE.
Author : Swami Lakshmanjoo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983783367
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (833 download)
Download or read book Kashmir Shaivism written by Swami Lakshmanjoo and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, Kashmir Shaivism: the Secret Supreme, by the twentieth century's great philosopher saint Swami Lakshmanjoo, presents a systematic unfolding of the Tantric teachings of the ancient tradition of Kashmir Shaivism. This profound tradition, long enshrouded in secrecy, is so rich and detailed in its descriptions of what it reveals as the ascent of individual consciousness to universal God Consciousness that it has been characterized as 'a mystical geography of awareness'. Within the pages of this book is found the key of the oral tradition which unlocks its secrets and provides the reader with the tools necessary to venture into this wondrous landscape.
Author : Christopher D. Wallis
Publisher : Mattamayura Press
ISBN 13 : 9780989761307
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (613 download)
Download or read book Tantra Illuminated written by Christopher D. Wallis and published by Mattamayura Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes readers on a fascinating journey to the very heart of Tantra: its key teachings, foundational lineages, and transformative practices. Since the West's discovery of Tantra 100 years ago, there has been considerable fascination, speculation, and more than a little misinformation about this spiritual movement. Now, for the first time in the English language, Tantra Illuminated presents an accessible introduction to this sacred tradition that began 1,500 years ago, in the far north of India. The book uses translations from primary Sanskrit sources, offers a profound look at spiritual practice, and reveals Tantra's rich history and powerful teachings.
Author : Navjivan Rastogi
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120813021
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Krama Tantricism of Kashmir written by Navjivan Rastogi and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1979 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Karma Tantricism of Kashmir is intended as a ground work of the Karma system, an almost neglected area of Kashmir Saivism. The author has very ably reconstructed the history and metaphysics of the system after rummaging through relevant literature, both in print and manuscript form. The krama philosophy, Sakta esotricism and the Tantric synoptic view are seen. In this first of the two volumes, the author has given a general and historical survey in seven chapters-Karma as a distinct system, mutual exchange from allied system, different traditions and sub-schools, sources and literature and karma`s place in Kashmir Saivism. Contains chronological table of Karma author`s classified Bibliography and indexes.
Author : Jaideva Singh
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 : 8120808169
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Spanda-Karikas written by Jaideva Singh and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spandakarikas are a number of verses that serve as a sort of commentary on the Siva-sutras. According to Saivagama, the divine consciousness is not simply cold, inert intellection. It is rather spanda, active, dynamic, throbbing with life, creative pulsation. In Siva-sutras, it is the prakasa aspect of the divine that is emphasized; in Spandakarikas, it is the vimarsa aspect that is emphasized. Together, these two books give us an integral view of Saiva philosophy. Ksemaraja has written a commentary on Spandakarikas, titled Spanda-nirnaya. He is fond of sesquipedalian compounds, long and windy sentences, but he is very profound in the comprehension of the subject and so cannot be ignored. The author tried to provide a readable translation of both the karikas and the Spanda-nirnaya commentary. Each karika (verse) is given both in Devanagari and Roman script, followed by its translation in English. This is followed by Ksemaraja's commentary in Sanskrit. Then follows an English translation of the commentary. After this, copious notes are added on important and technical words. Finally, a running exposition of each karika in the author's own words is given.
Author : G. W. Farrow
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 : 8120809114
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Concealed Essence of the Hevajra Tantra written by G. W. Farrow and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hevajra Tantra is a non-dual, Yogini tantra of the late Mantrayana tradition of Buddhism which was composed in north-eastern India during the 8th century A.D. This is an English translation of a principal root Tantra together with a translation of
Author : Paul E. Muller-Ortega
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438413858
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book The Triadic Heart of Śiva written by Paul E. Muller-Ortega and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores one of the most explicit and sophisticated theoretical formulations of tantric yoga. It explains Abhinavagupta's teaching about the nature of ultimate reality, about the methods for experiencing this ultimate reality, and about the nature of the state of realization, a condition of embodied enlightenment. The author uncovers the conceptual matrix surrounding the practices of the Kaula lineage of Kashmir Shaivism. The primary textual basis for the book is provided by Abhinavagupta's Parātrīśikā-laghuvṛtti, a short meditation manual that centers on the symbolism of the Heart-mantra, SAUḤ.
