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Abhinavagupta, a leading figure in Kashmir Saivism, is increasingly being recognized as one of the chief contributors to the evolution of Indian thought. In his encyclopaedic work, the Tantraloka, he describes the various tantras of his day and places at their apex the most extreme of them, the Kula ritual. This work is a translation – the first into English of a chapter of the Tantraloka of Abhinavagupta’s version of the Kula ritual. Its also provides a ...
Interreligious dialogue is one of the important ways for overcoming cultural and religious differences and mis-understandings, and for contributing to world peace. But such a dialogue has to go beyond the social, institutional and purely academic areas: it has to reach the very depths of the spiritual, philosophical and theological insights of the religious traditions. In Buddhism, Hinduism and Christianity such insights are expressed in the apparently opposite, ...
Abhinavagupta, a leading figure in Kashmir Saivism, is increasingly being recognized as one of the chief contributors to the evolution of Indian thought. In his encyclopaedia work, the Tantraloka, ‘Light on the Tantras, he describes the various tantras of his day and places at their apex the most extreme of them, the Kula ritual. This work is a translation of the Trantraloka of abhinavagupta’s version of the Kula ritual. It also provides a translation of ...