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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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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| spelling | doaj.art-63df37d3aa0a49a6af394fec5a3944ee2023-07-07T15:53:27ZengCERES / KHK BochumEntangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer2363-66962023-07-0114410.46586/er.14.2023.10995Śākta-Śaiva Meditation as Expanded Awareness in Medieval KashmirGavin Flood 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. https://er.ceres.rub.de/index.php/ER/article/view/10995Śākta-Śaivameditationawareness |
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| title | Śākta-Śaiva Meditation as Expanded Awareness in Medieval Kashmir |
| title_full | Śākta-Śaiva Meditation as Expanded Awareness in Medieval Kashmir |
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| title_short | Śākta-Śaiva Meditation as Expanded Awareness in Medieval Kashmir |
| title_sort | sakta saiva meditation as expanded awareness in medieval kashmir |
| topic | Śākta-Śaiva meditation awareness |
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