Śākta-Śaiva Meditation as Expanded Awareness in Medieval Kashmir
Contemplative traditions focused on Śiva and the Goddess developed during the medieval or post-Gupta period in Kashmir, although not limited to that region. In this paper I present textual accounts of a kind of meditation and its accompanying doctrine geared towards liberation conceptualized as an...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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CERES / KHK Bochum
2023-07-01
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| Series: | Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer |
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| Online Access: | https://er.ceres.rub.de/index.php/ER/article/view/10995 |
| Summary: | Contemplative traditions focused on Śiva and the Goddess developed during the medieval or post-Gupta period in Kashmir, although not limited to that region. In this paper I present textual accounts of a kind of meditation and its accompanying doctrine geared towards liberation conceptualized as an expanded awareness described in Śākta-Śaiva scriptures. This Śākta-Śaiva tradition has scriptural authority in revealed texts and its vision is articulated in the philosophical discourse of the Śākta-Śaiva philosophers, Abhinavagupta and Kṣemarāja. It is the Śākta-Śaiva idea of meditation as the realization of an innate purity of awareness which is also an expanded awareness that I wish to examine.
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| ISSN: | 2363-6696 |