RT Article
T1 Śākta-Śaiva Meditation as Expanded Awareness in Medieval Kashmir
JF Entangled Religions
VO 14
IS 4
A1 Flood, Gavin 1954-
LA English
PB Ruhr-Universität Bochum
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1852135166
AB Contemplative traditions focused on Śiva and the Goddess developed during the medieval or post-Gupta period in Kashmir, although not limited to that region. In this paper I present textual accounts of a kind of meditation and its accompanying doctrine geared towards liberation conceptualized as an expanded awareness described in Śākta-Śaiva scriptures. This Śākta-Śaiva tradition has scriptural authority in revealed texts and its vision is articulated in the philosophical discourse of the Śākta-Śaiva philosophers, Abhinavagupta and Kṣemarāja. It is the Śākta-Śaiva idea of meditation as the realization of an innate purity of awareness which is also an expanded awareness that I wish to examine.
K1 Awareness
K1 Meditation
K1 Śākta-Śaiva
DO 10.46586/er.14.2023.10995