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THE UBIQUITOUS SIVA
SOMANANDA'S SIVADRSTI AND HIS TANTRIC INTERLOCUTORS |
| By: |
John Nemec |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£69.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0199795460 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199795468 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
1 July, 2011 |
| Series: |
AAR Religions in Translation |
| Pages: |
456 |
| Language: |
English, Sanskrit |
| Description: |
This book examines the beginnings of the non-dual tantric philosophy of the famed Pratyabhijna or ''Recognition'' School of tenth-century Kashmir. It includes a critical edition and annotated translation of chapters 1-3 of Somananda's Sivadrsti, the first Pratyabhijna text ever composed, along with the corresponding passages of Utpaladeva's commentary, the Sivadrstivatti. |
| Synopsis: |
John Nemec examines the beginnings of the non-dual tantric philosophy of the famed Pratyabhijna or "Recognition [of God]" School of tenth-century Kashmir, the tradition most closely associated with Kashmiri Shaivism. In doing so it offers, for the very first time, a critical edition and annotated translation of a large portion of the first Pratyabhijna text ever composed, the Sivadrsti of Somananda. In an extended introduction, Nemec argues that the author presents a unique form of non-dualism, a strict pantheism that declares all beings and entities found in the universe to be fully identical with the active and willful god Siva. This view stands in contrast to the philosophically more flexible panentheism of both his disciple and commentator, Utpaladeva, and the very few other Saiva tantric works that were extant in the author's day. Nemec also argues that the text was written for the author's fellow tantric initiates, not for a wider audience. This can be adduced from the structure of the w |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press Inc |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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