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The ubiquitous Śiva : Somānanda's Śivadrs̥ṭị and his tantric interlocutors / John Nemec.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nemec, John.
- Series:
- AAR religion in translation.
- AAR religion in translation
- Language:
- English
- Sanskrit
- Subjects (All):
- Kashmir Śaivism--Doctrines.
- Kashmir Śaivism.
- Somānanda. Śivadr̥ṣṭi.
- Somānanda.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (449 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- Sanskrit
- Summary:
- John Nemec examines the beginnings of the non-dual tantric philosophy of the famed Pratyabhijna or ""Recognition [of God]"" School of tenth-century Kashmir, the tradition most closely associated with Kashmiri Shaivism. In doing so it offers, for the very first time, a critical edition and annotated translation of a large portion of the first Pratyabhijna text ever composed, the Sivadrsti of Somananda. In an extended introduction, Nemec argues that the author presents a unique form of non-dualism, a strict pantheism that declares all beings and entities found in the universe to be fully identic
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Introduction to the translation
- pt. 2. The translation
- pt. 3. The edition.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Contains:
- Somānanda. Śivadr̥ṣṭi. English. Selections.
- Somānanda. Śivadr̥ṣṭi. Sanskrit. Selections.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-13651-1
- 9786613136510
- 0-19-979554-1
- OCLC:
- 732066552
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