Product Description: The Shiva Sutra was revealed to Vasugupta by Shiva in order to counter the effects of dualism. This revelation initiated the hermeneutics of syntheses and exegesis climaxed by the great Abhinavagupta. The Shiva Sutra is the most important scripture in the Trika system of Kashmir Shaivism...read more

Product Description: “This is a wonderful continuation of his previous work, The Doctrine of Vibration. Through this book, general readers can go to the original sources.” — Rajmani Tigunait In his Doctrine of Vibration, the author presents a synthesis of Kashmir Shaivism—an overview with Spanda as the central theme...read more

Product Description: "Kashmir Saivism" refers to monistic Hindu Saiva traditions which developed from the 9th to 11th centuries B.C. This book places the idea of the "body" in the Saiva world of religious meaning by showing how Siva, equated with pure consciousness, is thought to become embodied in the universe through a process of emanation...read more

Product Description: Clarification of the principles and symbolism of this surprisingly modern religious tradition.

Product Description: This book deals with one of the most interesting periods in the development of Indian religious and philosophical traditions. Starting with the teaching of the proto-vedantist philosopher Gaudapada, and then analyzing the ideas of his famous contemporary, the grammarian Bhartrhari, the author suggests an entirely new approach to the whole history of vedanta...read more

Product Description: Encouraging students to recognize their identity with Shiva (the all-pervasive Lord), these commentaries on verses of Kashmir Shaivite philosophy illuminate the experience.

Product Description: Rediscovering God with Transcendental Argument provides a comparative philosophical study of the Pratyabhijna system of the medieval Kashmiri Shaiva thinkers Utpaladeva and Abhinavagupta. Beginning with intensive descriptive and prescriptive reflections on the nature of philosophy itself, the book examines the special characteristics of the Pratyabhijna discourse as both philosophical apologetics and spiritual exercise...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Careful study of Advaita Vedanta of Sankara. on Vedanta, Trika perspective

This book offers the first published translation of the contemplative manual Vir p ksapancasik, written circa the twelfth century CE, and the commentary on it, Vivrti by Vidy cakravartin. These late works from the Pratyabhijn tradition of monistic and tantric Kashmiri aiva philosophy focus on means to deindividualize and disclose the primordial, divine essential natures of the human ego and body-sense. David Peter Lawrence situates these writings in their medieval, South Asian religious and intellectual contexts. He goes on to engage Pratyabhijn philosophical psychology in dialogue with Western religious and psychoanalytic conceptions of identity and narcissism, and also demonstrates the aiva tradition s strong concern with ethics. The richly annotated translation and glossary illuminate the texts for all readers."