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 e...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Ruhr-Universität Bochum
2023
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Entangled Religions
Year: 2023, Volume: 14, Issue: 4 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Kashmir
/ Abhinavagupta 950-1020
/ Kṣemarāja ca. 11. Jh.
/ Śakta
/ Meditation
/ Consciousness
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| IxTheo Classification: | AE Psychology of religion AG Religious life; material religion BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism KBM Asia TE Middle Ages |
| Further subjects: | B
Meditation
B Awareness B Śākta-Śaiva |
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| 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 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.46586/er.14.2023.10995 |