This book explores on e of the most explicit and sophisticated the-oretical formulations of tantric yoga. It explains Abhinvagupta's teaching about the nature of ultimate reality, about the methods for experiencing this ultimate reality, and about the nature of the state of realization, a condition of embodied enlightenment. The author uncovers the conceptual matrix surrounding the practices of the Kaula lineage of Kashmir Shivism.The primary textual basis ...
