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    The Kashmir Shaivism tradition, also called Trika Shaivism, is a non-dualist branch of Shaiva-Shakta Tantra Hinduism that originated in Kashmir after...
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    estimate by Johnson and Grim, Shaivism is the second-largest Hindu sect, constituting about 253 million or 26.6% of Hindus. Shaivism developed as an amalgam...
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    where everything emerges". The nondualistic monism school of Shaivism, Kashmir Shaivism, describes the tattvas as Paramshiva manifests himself by a process...
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    Aham, a concept of Kashmir Shaivism, is defined as the supreme heart (hṛdayam), transcendent Self, supreme I awareness or infinite consciousness. The space...
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  • of the epithet Ishvara. In Kashmir Shaivism, Svachhanda Bhairava is considered as the supreme form of Shiva. Kashmir Shaivism consider Svachhanda Bhairava...
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    Pratyabhijna (category Kashmir Shaivism)
    in Kashmir Shaivism which originated in the ninth century CE. The term Trika was used by Abhinavagupta to represent the whole of Kashmir Shaivism, or...
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    mystic and scholar of Kashmir Shaivism. Lakshman Joo was born in a Kashmiri Hindu Brahmin family in the city of Srinagar in Kashmir. He was the fifth child...
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  • Advaita in Buddhism, Vedanta and Kashmira Shaivism Shankarananda, Swami (2006). The Yoga of Kashmir Shaivism: Consciousness Is Everything. Delhi: Motilal...
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    to the eventual decline of the Kashmir Shaivism in Kashmir. In 1339, Shah Mir became the first Muslim ruler of Kashmir, inaugurating the Shah Mir dynasty...
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    it also agrees with the Nondual Trika philosophy of Kashmir, popularly known as Kashmir Shaivism and associated most famously with Abhinavagupta. There...
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  • Kashmir Shaivism: The Secret Supreme, By Lakshman Jee Dyczkowski 1987, p. 4. The Trika Śaivism of Kashmir, Moti Lal Pandit, pp. 1 Kashmir Shaivism: The...
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  • of Kashmir Shaivism is divided under three categories: Agama shastra, Spanda shastra, and Pratyabhijna shastra. In addition to these agamas, Kashmir Shaivism...
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    Parashiva (category Shaivism)
    Paraśiva) is the highest aspect of Shiva in Shaiva Siddhanta and in Kashmir Shaivism. Below him are the primordial Shiva with the Parashakti and Sadashiva...
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  • Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Raina, Piyaray L. "Kashmir Shaivism versus Vedanta – A Synopsis". Shaivism.net. Jnaneshvara, Swami. "Faces of Nondualism"...
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    luminous mind, which is the ultimate truth, the ultimate reality. In Kashmir Shaivism prakāśa is identified with God, Śiva. Paul E. Murphy describes it as...
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    Buddhists. In Shaivism, he is a powerful manifestation, or avatar, of Shiva, associated with annihilation. In the tradition of Kashmir Shaivism, Bhairava...
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    on Trika, once wrote an interesting note about liberation through Kashmir Shaivism: "There are four ways of effecting this liberation: Kaula Marga, where...
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  • Shiva Sutras of Vasugupta (category Kashmir Shaivism)
    and the ensuing school of Kashmir Shaivism are a Tantric or Agamic tradition. The Kashmiri Shaivism is combination of Shaivism, Agama and Tantra. A number...
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    Vedanta, but continued in Tantrism and various schools of Shaivism. Non-dual Kashmir Shaivism, for example, was influenced by, and took over doctrines...
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    Vasugupta (category Kashmir Shaivism)
    Advaita Shaivism of Kashmir, or Trika. Vasugupta's Shiva Sutra is an important Yoga text, foundational to the Trika system of Kashmir Shaivism. The text...
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    Abhinavagupta (category Kashmir Shaivism)
    philosophical and practical aspects of Kaula and Trika (known today as Kashmir Shaivism). Another one of his very important contributions was in the field...
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    Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra (category Shaivism)
    Bhairav Tantra) is a Shiva Tantra, of the Kaula Trika tradition of Kashmir Shaivism, possibly authored by Guru Keyūravatī. Singh notes that it is difficult...
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    the south, came to Kashmir where his dialogue with a Kashmiri Hindu lady, in which he was outwitted, led to the development of Shaivism. Abdullah wrote that...
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    influenced by the (Laghu-) Yoga-Vasistha, which in turn was influenced by Kashmir Shaivism. "World fair 1893 circulated photo". vivekananda.net. Retrieved 11...
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  • dimensions results in the Maha Meru, symbolizing the philosophy of Kashmir Shaivism. In the 2009 issue of Brahmavidya (the journal of the Adyar Library)...
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    portrays him as the one who reconciled the various sects (Vaishnavism, Shaivism, and Saktism) with the introduction of the Pañcāyatana form of worship...
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    of laughter, song, dance, sacred muttering etc. Indian philosophy Kashmir Shaivism Shaiva Siddhanta Cowell and Gough, p. 108. For dating as 1st century...
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  • Tantrāloka (category Kashmir Shaivism)
    Tantra') is a treatise of Abhinavagupta, a writer and philosopher of the Kashmir Shaivism school of Hindu philosophy. The work contains the synthesis of the...
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  • Practices of Kashmir Shaivism, Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 1989, p. 25. Singh, Jaideva (1985). Vedanta and Advaita Shaivagama Of Kashmir: A Comparative...
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  • Trika tradition of Kashmir Shaivism. Kashmir Shaivism, is a nondualist Hindu tradition of Shaiva-Shakta Tantra which originated in Kashmir sometime after...
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