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96 relations: Abhinavagupta, Acharya Rameshwar Jha, Advaita Vedanta, Agama (Hinduism), Aham (Kashmir Shaivism), Asana, Ātman (Hinduism), Bhagavad Gita, Bhagwan Gopinath, Bhatta Kallata, Buddhi, Buddhist logico-epistemology, Chakra, Daśanāmi Sampradaya, Devi, Dharmakirti, Dhāraṇā, Dhyana in Hinduism, Diksha, Gavin Flood, God, Gorakhnath, Hatha yoga, Hindu tantric literature, Hinduism, Idealism, Ishvara, Jaideva Singh, Jammu and Kashmir (union territory), Kali, Kashmir, Kashmir Shaivism, Kashmiri Hindus, Kaula (Hinduism), Kshemaraja, Kumbhaka, Lakshman Joo, Lalleshwari, Mahakali, Maharashtra, Mantra, Mark S. G. Dyczkowski, Maya (religion), Metaphysics, Meykandar, Monism, Motilal Banarsidass, Muktananda, Nadi (yoga), Natha Sampradaya, ... Expand index (46 more) »
- Advaita Shaivism
- Theistic Indian philosophy
Abhinavagupta
Abhinavagupta (Devanāgarī अभिनवगुप्तः; c. 950 – 1016 CE) was a philosopher, mystic and aesthetician from Kashmir.
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Acharya Rameshwar Jha
Acharya Rameshwar Jha (20th century) was an Indian traditional Sanskrit scholar and considered an authority on Nyaya, Vyakarana and Vedanta.
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Advaita Vedanta
Advaita Vedanta (अद्वैत वेदान्त) is a Hindu tradition of textual exegesis and philosophy and a Hindu sādhanā, a path of spiritual discipline and experience. Kashmir Shaivism and Advaita Vedanta are Nonduality.
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Agama (Hinduism)
The Agamas (Devanagari: आगम, IAST) (ākamam) (Bengali: আগম, ISO15919: āgama) are a collection of several Tantric literature and scriptures of Hindu schools.
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Aham (Kashmir Shaivism)
Aham, a concept of Kashmir Shaivism, is defined as the supreme heart,, Jaideva Singh, page 78 transcendent Self, supreme I awareness or infinite consciousness.
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Asana
An āsana (Sanskrit: आसन) is a body posture, originally and still a general term for a sitting meditation pose,Verse 46, chapter II, "Patanjali Yoga sutras" by Swami Prabhavananda, published by the Sri Ramakrishna Math p. 111 and later extended in hatha yoga and modern yoga as exercise, to any type of position, adding reclining, standing, inverted, twisting, and balancing poses.
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Ātman (Hinduism)
Ātman (आत्मन्) is a Sanskrit word for the true or eternal Self or the self-existent essence or impersonal witness-consciousness within each individual.
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Bhagavad Gita
The Bhagavad Gita (translit-std), often referred to as the Gita, is a 700-verse Hindu scripture, which is part of the epic Mahabharata.
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Bhagwan Gopinath
Bhagwan Gopinath (3 July 1898 – 28 May 1968), born Gopinath Bhan, also called Bhagwan Gopinath Ji, was a mystic saint of early 20th century Kashmir in India.
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Bhatta Kallata
Bhatta Kallata also referred as Kallata was a notable 9th-century Kashmiri Shaivite thinker who may have written the Spanda-vritti, and Spanda-karika.
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Buddhi
Buddhi (Sanskrit: बुद्धि) refers to the intellectual faculty and the power to "form and retain concepts, reason, discern, judge, comprehend, understand".
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Buddhist logico-epistemology
Buddhist logico-epistemology is a term used in Western scholarship to describe Buddhist systems of (epistemic tool, valid cognition) and hetu-vidya (reasoning, logic).
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Chakra
Chakras (lit; cakka) are various focal points used in a variety of ancient meditation practices, collectively denominated as Tantra, part of the inner traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism.
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Daśanāmi Sampradaya
The Daśanāmi Sampradaya (IAST: "Tradition of Ten Names"), also known as the Order of Swamis, is a Hindu monastic tradition of "single-staff renunciation" (ēka daṇḍi saṃnyāsī) Ēkadandis were already known during what is sometimes referred to as "Golden Age of Hinduism" (ca. Kashmir Shaivism and Daśanāmi Sampradaya are Hindu denominations.
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Devi
Devī (Sanskrit: देवी) is the Sanskrit word for 'goddess'; the masculine form is ''deva''.
Dharmakirti
Dharmakīrti (fl.; Tibetan: ཆོས་ཀྱི་གྲགས་པ་; Wylie: chos kyi grags pa), was an influential Indian Buddhist philosopher who worked at Nālandā.
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Dhāraṇā
Dhāraṇā is translated as "collection or concentration of the mind (joined with the retention of breath)", or "the act of holding, bearing, wearing, supporting, maintaining, retaining, keeping back (in remembrance), a good memory", or "firmness, steadfastness, certainty".
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Dhyana in Hinduism
Dhyāna (Sanskrit: ध्यान) in Hinduism means contemplation and meditation.
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Diksha
Diksha (Sanskrit: दीक्षा) also spelled diksa, deeksha or deeksa in common usage, translated as a "preparation or consecration for a religious ceremony", is giving of a mantra or an initiation by the guru (in Guru–shishya tradition) of Indian religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.
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Gavin Flood
Gavin Dennis Flood (born 1954) is a British scholar of comparative religion specialising in Shaivism and phenomenology, but with research interests that span South Asian traditions.
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God
In monotheistic belief systems, God is usually viewed as the supreme being, creator, and principal object of faith.
Gorakhnath
Gorakhnath (also known as Goraksanath (Sanskrit: Gorakṣanātha), c. early 11th century) was a Hindu yogi, mahasiddha and saint who was the founder of the Nath Hindu monastic movement in India.
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Hatha yoga
Hatha yoga (IAST: Haṭha-yoga) is a branch of yoga that uses physical techniques to try to preserve and channel vital force or energy.
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Hindu tantric literature
Tantras in Hinduism are esoteric scriptures.
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Hinduism
Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.
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Idealism
Idealism in philosophy, also known as philosophical idealism or metaphysical idealism, is the set of metaphysical perspectives asserting that, most fundamentally, reality is equivalent to mind, spirit, or consciousness; that reality is entirely a mental construct; or that ideas are the highest type of reality or have the greatest claim to being considered "real".
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Ishvara
Ishvara is a concept in Hinduism, with a wide range of meanings that depend on the era and the school of Hinduism.
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Jaideva Singh
Jaideva Singh (19 September 1893 in Shoratgarh, Uttar Pradesh – 27 May 1986 in Banaras) was an Indian musicologist and philosopher.
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Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)
Jammu and Kashmir is a region administered by India as a union territory and consists of the southern portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and between India and China since 1959.
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Kali
Kali (काली), also called Kalika, is a major Hindu goddess associated with time, change, creation, power, destruction and death in Shaktism.
Kashmir
Kashmir is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent.
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Kashmir Shaivism
The Kashmir Shaivism tradition, also called Trika Shaivism, is a non-dualist branch of Shaiva-Shakta Tantra Hinduism that originated in Kashmir after 850 CE. Kashmir Shaivism and Kashmir Shaivism are Advaita Shaivism, Hindu denominations, Nonduality, theistic Indian philosophy and yoga styles.
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Kashmiri Hindus
Kashmiri Hindus are ethnic Kashmiris who practice Hinduism and are native to the Kashmir Valley of India.
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Kaula (Hinduism)
Kaula, also known as Kula, ("the Kula path") and ("the Kaula tradition"), is a Tantric tradition which is characterised by distinctive rituals and symbolism connected with the worship of Shakti and Shiva that is associated with cremation-ground or charnel ground sceticism, found in Shaktism and Shaivism. Kashmir Shaivism and Kaula (Hinduism) are Nonduality.
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Kshemaraja
Rajanaka Kṣemarāja (क्षेमराज) (late 10th to early 11th century) was a philosopher disciple of Abhinavagupta, who was considered a master of tantra, yoga, poetics, and dramaturgy.
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Kumbhaka
Kumbhaka is the retention of the breath in the yoga practice of pranayama.
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Lakshman Joo
Swami Lakshman Joo (9 May 1907 – 27 September 1991), born Lakshman Raina and also called Lal Sahib by his followers, was a mystic and scholar of Kashmir Shaivism.
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Lalleshwari
Lalleshwari, also commonly known as Lal Ded (1320–1392), was a Kashmiri mystic of the Kashmir Shaivism school of Hindu philosophy.
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Mahakali
Mahakali is the Hindu goddess of time and death in the goddess-centric tradition of Shaktism.
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Maharashtra
Maharashtra (ISO: Mahārāṣṭra) is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau.
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Mantra
A mantra (Pali: mantra) or mantram (Devanagari: मन्त्रम्) is a sacred utterance, a numinous sound, a syllable, word or phonemes, or group of words (most often in an Indic language like Sanskrit) believed by practitioners to have religious, magical or spiritual powers.
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Mark S. G. Dyczkowski
Mark S. G. Dyczkowski is an English Indologist, musician, and scholar of Tantra and Kashmir Shaivism.
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Maya (religion)
Maya (Devanagari: माया, IAST), literally "illusion" or "magic", has multiple meanings in Indian philosophies depending on the context.
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Metaphysics
Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that examines the basic structure of reality.
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Meykandar
Meykandar (மெய்கண்டார், Meykaṇṭār, lit. the truth seer), also known as Meykanda Devar, was a 13th-century philosopher and theologian who contributed to the Shaiva Siddhanta school of Shaivism.
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Monism
Monism attributes oneness or singleness to a concept, such as to existence.
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Motilal Banarsidass
Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House (MLBD) is an Indian academic publishing house, founded in Delhi, India in 1903.
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Muktananda
Swami Muktananda Paramahamsa (16 May 1908 – 2 October 1982), born Krishna Rai, was a yoga guru and the founder of Siddha Yoga.
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Nadi (yoga)
(lit) is a term for the channels through which, in traditional Indian medicine and spiritual theory, the energies such as prana of the physical body, the subtle body and the causal body are said to flow.
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Natha Sampradaya
Natha, also called Nath, are a Shaiva sub-tradition within Hinduism in India and Nepal.
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Netra Tantra
Netra Tantra (Tantra of Eye) is a Tantra text attributed to non-Saiddhantika Mantra margic sect of Shaivism produced between circa 700 - 850 CE in Kashmir.
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Nondualism
Nondualism includes a number of philosophical and spiritual traditions that emphasize the absence of fundamental duality or separation in existence. Kashmir Shaivism and Nondualism are Nonduality.
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Odisha
Odisha (English), formerly Orissa (the official name until 2011), is an Indian state located in Eastern India.
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Pamposh Enclave
Pamposh Enclave is a residential colony in GK in south Delhi, India.
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Pancharatra
Pancharatra (IAST: Pāñcarātra) was a religious movement in Hinduism that originated in late 3rd-century BCE around the ideas of Narayana and the various avatars of Vishnu as their central deities.
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Para Brahman
Para Brahman or Param Brahman (translit-std) in Hindu philosophy is the "Supreme Brahman" that which is beyond all descriptions and conceptualisations.
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Parashakti
Parashakti (IAST: Paraśakti, Sanskrit: पराशक्ति) or Parā is one of the three chief goddesses in Trika system of Kashmir Shaivism along with Aparā and Parparā.
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Paul Reps
Paul Reps (September 15, 1895July 12, 1990) was an American artist, poet, and author.
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Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMoA) is an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.
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Poetry
Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings.
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Prana
In yoga, Ayurveda, and Indian martial arts, prana (प्राण,; the Sanskrit word for breath, "life force", or "vital principle") permeates reality on all levels including inanimate objects.
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Pranayama
Pranayama (Sanskrit: प्राणायाम, "Prāṇāyāma") is the yogic practice of focusing on breath.
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Pratyabhijna
Pratyabhijñā or Pratyabhigyā (re-cognition) is an idealistic, monistic, and theistic school of philosophy in Kashmir Shaivism which originated in the ninth century CE. Kashmir Shaivism and Pratyabhijna are Advaita Shaivism, Hindu denominations and theistic Indian philosophy.
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Pratyabhijnahridayam
Pratyabhijñāhṛdayam ('The Heart of Self-Recognition') is an eleventh-century treatise written by Kashmiri philosopher Rajanaka Kṣemarāja.
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Pratyahara
Pratyahara or the 'gathering towards' is the fifth element among the Eight stages of Patanjali's Ashtanga Yoga, as mentioned in his classical work, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali composed in the 2nd century BCE.
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Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture
The Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture (RMIC) in Kolkata, India, is a branch of the Ramakrishna Mission founded on 29 January 1938 as an outcome of the commemoration of Sri Ramakrishna's Birth Centenary Celebrations, the institute has grown over the years, and is now situated on its present magnificent premises at Gol Park in Kolkata.
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Samadhi
Statue of a meditating Shiva, Rishikesh Samādhi (Pali and समाधि), in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and yogic schools, is a state of meditative consciousness.
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Samkhya
Samkhya or Sankhya (sāṃkhya) is a dualistic orthodox school of Hindu philosophy.
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Sampradaya
Sampradaya (सम्प्रदाय), in Indian origin religions, namely Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, can be translated as 'tradition', 'spiritual lineage', 'sect', or 'religious system'.
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Shaiva Siddhanta
Shaiva Siddhanta is a form of Shaivism popular in South India and Sri Lanka which propounds a devotional philosophy with the ultimate goal of experiencing union with Shiva. Kashmir Shaivism and Shaiva Siddhanta are theistic Indian philosophy.
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Shaivism
Shaivism (translit-std) is one of the major Hindu traditions, which worships Shiva as the Supreme Being. Kashmir Shaivism and Shaivism are Hindu denominations and theistic Indian philosophy.
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Shakti
Shakti (Devanagari: शक्ति, IAST: Śakti; 'energy, ability, strength, effort, power, might, capability') in Hinduism, is the "Universal Power" that underlies and sustains all existence.
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Shaktipata
Shaktipata or Shaktipat refers in Hinduism to the transmission (or conferring) of spiritual energy upon one person by another or directly from the deity.
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Shaktism
Shaktism (translit-std) is a major Hindu denomination in which the godhead or metaphysical reality is considered metaphorically to be a woman. Kashmir Shaivism and Shaktism are Hindu denominations.
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Shiva
Shiva (lit), also known as Mahadeva (Category:Trimurti Category:Wisdom gods Category:Time and fate gods Category:Indian yogis.
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Shiva Sutras of Vasugupta
Shiva Sutras are a collection of seventy seven aphorisms that form the foundation of the tradition of spiritual mysticism known as Kashmir Shaivism.
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Shri Vidya
Shri Vidya (ISO:;; sometimes also spelled Sri Vidya or Shree Vidya) is a Hindu Tantric religious system devoted to the Goddess.
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Smriti
Smriti Literature in Hinduism (स्मृति, IAST) The smṛti texts are a body of Hindu texts usually attributed to an author, traditionally written down, in contrast to Śrutis (the Vedic literature) considered authorless, that were transmitted verbally across the generations and fixed.
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Somananda
Somananda (875–925 CE) was one of the teachers of Kashmir Shaivism, in the lineage of Trayambaka, author of the first philosophical treatise of this school, Śivadṛṣṭi. Kashmir Shaivism and Somananda are Hindu denominations and theistic Indian philosophy.
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Soteriology
Soteriology (σωτηρία "salvation" from σωτήρ "savior, preserver" and λόγος "study" or "word") is the study of religious doctrines of salvation.
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South India
South India, also known as Southern India or Peninsular India, is the southern part of the Deccan Peninsula in India encompassing the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana as well as the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry, occupying 19.31% of India's area and 20% of India's population.
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Tantra
Tantra (lit) is an esoteric yogic tradition that developed on the Indian subcontinent from the middle of the 1st millennium CE onwards in both Hinduism and Buddhism. Kashmir Shaivism and Tantra are Nonduality.
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Tantrasara
The Tantrasara is a work attributed to Abhinavagupta, the most famous historical proponent of the Trika or Kashmir Shaivism philosophy of Hinduism.
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Tantrāloka
Tantrāloka (lit) is a treatise of Abhinavagupta, a writer and philosopher of the Kashmir Shaivism school of Hindu philosophy.
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Tattva (Shaivism)
The tattvas in Indian philosophy are elements or principles of reality.
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Theism
Theism is broadly defined as the belief in the existence of at least one deity.
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Tirumantiram
The Tirumantiram or Thirumantiram is a Tamil poetic work, written either in the 2nd century BCE and 4th century CE by Tirumular.
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Tirumular
Tirumular (Tamil: திருமூலர், romanized: Tirumūlar), also known as Suntaranāthar, was a Tamil Shaivite mystic and writer, considered one of the sixty-three poet-saints called the Nayanars, and is listed among a group of 18 sages called the Siddhars.
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Utpaladeva
Utpaladeva (c. 900–950 CE) was a philosopher and theologian from Kashmir.
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Varanasi
Varanasi (ISO:,; also Benares, Banaras or Kashi) is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world.
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Vasugupta
Vasugupta (~ 800 – 850 CE) was the author of the Shiva Sutras, an important text of the Advaita tradition of Kashmir Shaivism, also called Trika (sometimes called Trika Yoga).
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Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra
The Vijñāna-bhairava-tantra (VBT, sometimes spelled in a Hindicised way as Vigyan Bhairav Tantra) is a Shiva Tantra, of the Kaula Trika tradition of Kashmir Shaivism, possibly authored by Guru Keyūravatī.
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Vimarśa
Vimarśa is a philosophical concept in Shaivism that comes from the "Recognition" (Pratyabhijñā) philosophy, introduced by Utpaladeva and Abhinavagupta, two eminent masters in Kashmir Śaivism from around the 9th and 10th centuries.
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Yoga
Yoga (lit) is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India and aim to control (yoke) and still the mind, recognizing a detached witness-consciousness untouched by the mind (Chitta) and mundane suffering (Duḥkha). Kashmir Shaivism and Yoga are Nonduality.
Yogachara
Yogachara (योगाचार, IAST) is an influential tradition of Buddhist philosophy and psychology emphasizing the study of cognition, perception, and consciousness through the interior lens of meditation, as well as philosophical reasoning (hetuvidyā). Kashmir Shaivism and Yogachara are Nonduality.
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Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
Zen Flesh, Zen Bones is a 1957 publication by Paul Reps combining four separate texts on nondual practice.
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See also
Advaita Shaivism
- Allama Prabhu
- Kashmir Shaivism
- Pratyabhijna
- Saccidānanda
- Shiva Advaita
- Shivarahasya Purana
- Shuddhadvaita
Theistic Indian philosophy
- Kashmir Shaivism
- Pratyabhijna
- Pāśa
- Shaiva Siddhanta
- Shaivism
- Somananda
- Vaishnavism
References
Also known as Kashmir Saivism, Kashmir Shivaism, Kashmir Sivaism, Kashmir Śaivism, Kashmiri Saivism, Kashmiri Shaivism, Kashmiri Sivaism, Kasmir Saivism, Kaśmir Śaivism, Saivism in Kashmir, Shaiva Monism, Trika, Trika Shaivism.