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By John Nemec

John Nemec examines the beginnings of the non-dual tantric philosophy of the famed Pratyabhijña or "Recognition [of God]" university of tenth-century Kashmir, the culture so much heavily linked to Kashmiri Shaivism. In doing so it deals, for the first actual time, a severe version and annotated translation of a giant element of the 1st Pratyabhijña textual content ever composed, the Sivadrsti of Somananda. In a longer advent, Nemec argues that the writer offers a distinct type of non-dualism, a strict pantheism that broadcasts all beings and entities present in the universe to be absolutely exact with the lively and willful god Siva. This view stands not like the philosophically extra versatile panentheism of either his disciple and commentator, Utpaladeva, and the only a few different Saiva tantric works that have been extant within the author's day. Nemec additionally argues that the textual content was once written for the author's fellow tantric initiates, now not for a much wider viewers. this is adduced from the constitution of the paintings, the competitors the writer addresses, and numerous different editorial recommendations. Even the author's recognized and vociferous arguments opposed to the non-tantric Hindu grammarians will be proven to were eventually directed at an opposing Hindu tantric university that subscribed to the various grammarians' philosophical perspectives. integrated within the quantity is a serious variation and annotated translation of the 1st 3 (of seven) chapters of the textual content, in addition to the corresponding chapters of the observation. those are the chapters within which Somananda formulates his arguments opposed to opposing tantric authors and colleges of notion. not one of the fabrics made on hand within the current quantity has ever been translated into English, except a quick rendering of the 1st bankruptcy that was once released with out the statement in 1957. not one of the statement has formerly been translated into any language at all.

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