Around Abhinavagupta: aspects of the intellectual history of Kashmir from the ninth to the eleventh century,

ISBN: 9789394852020, 9394852026

Abhinavagupta is undoubtedly the most famous Kashmirian medieval intellectual: his decisive contributions to Indian aesthetics. Saiva theology and metaphysics, and to the philosophy of the subtle and original Pratyabhijna system are well known. Yet so far his works have often been studied without fully taking into account the specific context in which they are embedded--an intellectual backgrou...

Centrality of self in Saiva Siddhanta, with special reference to Sivajnana Mapadiyam of Matava Sivajnanamunivar

Joseph, VS George

ISBN: 9788170863687, 8170863686

Chants devotionnels tamouls de Karaikkalammaiyar, edition et traduction par Karavelane, introduction par Jean Filliozat, Nouvelle edition avec postface et index-glossaire par ....

...Francois Gros (in Tamil and French).;The new edition has been considerably enriched, by a complete glossary/concordance of the poems, a full translation by Vinson (1906) of the story of the poetess as given by the Periyapuranam, and an iconography substantially improved. The postface explores the legends and controversial iconography of Karaikkalammaiyar. It also attempts to define her liter...

Cultural heritage of Kashmiri pandits

Toshkhani, SS et al. (ed.)

ISBN: 9788182743984, 8182743982

This book presents an overarching study of the significant contributions made by Kashmiri Pandits in core areas of Indian cultural and intellectual endeavours, from aesthetics, poetics, dramaturgy, historiography, linguistics, literature, folklore, transmission of the doctrines of Mahayana Buddhism, Kashmir Shaivism, mural, architectural and sculptural art. With these narratives on the long ody...

Digital Tevaram (CD Rom)

Aiyar, VM Subramanya et al.

ISBN: 9782855396637, 2855396638

This is a multifeature CD-ROM edition of a collection of 800 Tamil hyms to Siva, possibly dating back to 7th and 8th centuries attributed to three authors (Sambandar, Appar and Sundarar), traditionally called Tevaram, and constituting the initial part of the Tamil Saiva Scriptures.

Diptagama, Tome II (chapitres 22-62), edition critique by Marie-Luce Barazer-Billoret et al., avec la collaboration de S. Sambandha Sivacarya, introd. in French

ISBN: 9788184701494, 8184701497

Skt. text with introduction & summary in French. The Diptagama is a Sanskrit Saive treatise pertaining to the Southern school. It deals with the installation of images of gods in Siva temples.

Early Saivism and the Skandapurana sects and centres: a vertical edition and study of two variant descriptions of Saiva sacred sites in the Skandapurana

Bisschop, Peter C

ISBN: 9789069801506, 9069801507

Facets of Saiva Siddhanta (in Tamil and English), with preface in English

Krishnan, P (ed.)

Collection of articles in Tamil and English presented in a two day national seminar organised by the Department of Saiva Siddhanta, Madras University during March 1998.

From dualism to non-dualism: a study of the evolution of Saivite thought

Pandit, Moti Lal

ISBN: 9788121512084, 8121512085

Kashmir Shaivism: a philosophy of being & becoming

Pandit, Moti Lal

ISBN: 9789394852266, 9394852263

The Shaiva thinkers of Kashmir have so conceived the Absolute as to be a synthesis of Being and Becoming simultaneously, which is to say that Paramsiva as Absolute is characterized by such two movements as would delineate the idea of it being a massive ocean of creativity.

Himalayan mysticism: Shiva's disc to cut asunder and open the mystic heart

Nataraj, Ralph

ISBN: 9788178222905, 8178222906

This book is based on the philosophy of Kashmir Saivism.

A banquet of philosophical and devotional hymns of Abhinavaguptacarya,

ISBN: 9789394852198, 9394852190

Siva sutras: the yoga of supreme identity

Singh, Jaideva

ISBN: 9789390696277, 9390696275

English tr. of Sivasutra Vimarsinl (commentary), a treatise of Kashmir Saivism.

Saivism and the tantric traditions: essays in honour of Alexis G.J.S. Sanderson,

ISBN: 9789360800413, 9360800414

This collection of essays honours Alexis G.J.S. Sanderson, and touches several fields of Indology that he has helped to shape (or, in the case of Saivism, revolutionised): the history, ritual, and philosophies of tantric Buddhism. Saivism and Vaisnavism; religious art and architecture; and Sanskrit belles letters.

Melanges a la memoire de Pandit N.R. Bhatt: Studies in memory of Pandit N.R. Bhatt,

ISBN: 9788184702446, 8184702442

This collection of essays honours the memory of the late Pandit N.R. Bhatt, who contributed to pioneering research into the history of Saivism in the French institutions of research in Pondicherry, notably through his editions of Sanskrit works of the Saivasiddhanta and through his work of gathering the largest collection of Saiva manuscripts worldwide, recognised as a Memory of the World colle...

Periya puranam

Manian, V.V.S. et al.

ISBN: 9789391685140, 9391685145

This book is a part of the large corpus of Shaiva canonical works. It was compiled by Sekkizhar, who was both poet and the chieft Minister in the court of the Chola King, Kulothunga II or AnabhayaCholan. The king himself was a staunch devotee of Lord Nataraja at Chidambaram. This book is a prose version of the lives of the 63 saints. it is a wonderful source for Tamilians & non-Tamilians alike ...

An introduction to the Advaita Saiva philosophy of Kashmir

SenSharma, Debabrata

ISBN: 9788186569894, 8186569898

This book describes briefly the origin and development of the Saiva thought in general and the Advaita Saiva thought in Kashmir in particular besides discussing metaphysical thought of this school.

An introduction to the philosophy of Trika Saivism

Pandit, Moti Lal

ISBN: 9788121511834, 8121511836

Although non-dualistic in orientation, yet it differs radically from the monoism of Sankara with regard to the nature of the Absolute and the world. The book presents the fundamental principles that Trika philosophers have enuciated in their philosophical-cum-thedogical treatises.

Isanasivagurudevapaddhati of Isanasivagurudeva, 2 vols., recomposed, rev. and enl. edition, ed. by T. Ganapati Sastri, with an introd. by N.P. Unni

ISBN: 9788183150132, 8183150136

'Looking within': life lessons from Lal Ded

ISBN: 9789388292702, 9388292707

The book contains the core teachings of Lal Ded, a Shaiva mystic saint who lived in Kashmir in the fourteenth century.