Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Kashmir Śaivism --- Tantrism --- Abhinavagupta, - Rajanaka. - Paramarthasara.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Kashmir Śaivism --- Doctrines. --- Abhinavagupta, --- Tantras. --- Kashmir Śaivism - Doctrines. --- Abhinavagupta, - Rajanaka. - Paratrimsikavivrti.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

In the early 11th century, the Kashmiri philosopher Abhinavagupta proposed panentheism-seeing the divine as both immanent in the world and at the same time as transcendent—as a way to reclaim the material world as something real, something solid. His theology understood the world itself, with its manifold inhabitants—from gods to humans to insects down to the merest rock-as part of the unfolding of a single conscious reality, Siva. This conscious singularity-the word "god" here does not quite do it justice—with its capacity to choose and will, pervades all through, top to bottom; as Abhinavagupta writes, "even down to a worm — when they do their own deeds, that which is to be done first stirs in the heart." His panentheism proposed an answer to a familiar conundrum, one we still grapple with today: Consciousness is so unlike matter. How does consciousness actually connect to the materiality of our world? To put this in more familar twenty-first-century terms, how does mind connect to body?These questions drive Loriliai Biernacki's The Matter of Wonder: Abhinavagupta's Panentheism and New Materialism. Biernacki draws on Abhinavagupta's thought—and particularly his yet-untranslated, philosophical magnum opus, the Isvara Pratyabhijña Vivrti Vimarsini—to think through contemporary issues such as the looming prospect of machine AI, ideas about information, and our ecological crises. She argues that Abhinavagupta's panentheism can help us understand our current world and can contribute to a New Materialist re-envisioning of the relationship that humans have with matter.

Materialism --- Kashmir Śaivism --- Panentheism --- Abhinavagupta, - Rājānaka

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"What is Dance? What is Theatre? What is the boundary between enacting a character and narrating a story? When does movement become tinted with meaning? And when does beauty shine alone as if with no object? These universal aesthetic questions find a theoretically vibrant and historically informed set of replies in the oeuvre of the eleventh-century Kashmirian author Abhinavagupta. The present book offers the first critical edition, translation, and study of a crucial and lesser known passage of his commentary on the Nāṭyaśāstra, the seminal work of Sanskrit dramaturgy. The nature of dramatic acting and the mimetic power of dance, emotions, and beauty all play a role in Abhinavagupta's thorough investigation of performance aesthetics, now presented to the modern reader"--

Sanskrit drama --- Theater --- Aesthetics, Indic. --- History and criticism. --- Bharata Muni. --- Abhinavagupta,

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Abhinavagupta is undoubtedly the most famous Kashmirian medieval intellectual: his decisive contributions to Indian aesthetics, Śaiva theology and metaphysics, and to the philosophy of the subtle and original Pratyabhijña system are well known. Yet so far his works have often been studied without fully taking into account the specific historical, social, artistic, religious and philosophical context in which they are embedded. The purpose of this book is to show that this intellectual background is not less exceptional than Abhinavagupta himself.

Philosophy, Indic --- Intellectual life --- Abhinavagupta, --- Jammu and Kashmir (India) --- India --- History --- Philosophy, Indic. --- Intellectual life. --- History. --- Abhinavagupta, - Rājānaka --- Jammu and Kashmir (India) - Intellectual life --- Jammu and Kashmir (India) - History --- India - Jammu and Kashmir