Shared Realities and Symbolic Forms in Kashmir Saivism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9205147 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gavin Flood (0000-0001-5856-6910, Bath Spa University, corresponding author), Gavin D Flood (1Bath College of Higher Education Bath BA 2 9BN) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 225 |
| Publication date | 1989-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Numen (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0029-5973 • E-ISSN: 1568-5276 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3270037 |
| OpenAlex | W4238691635 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
SHARED REALITIES AND SYMBOLIC FORMS IN KASHMIR SAIVISM GAVIN D. FLOOD Inlroduction The expression 'Kashmir Saivism' has come to refer to the vari- ous traditions of non-dualistic Saivism which developed in Kashmir between the 9th and llth centuries C.E.1 By 'non-dualistic' or 'monistic' I mean the Tantric Saiva traditions which revered a scriptural authority other than the orthodox Vedas, namely the Tantras and Agamas, and which propounded a doctrine that ultimately there is only one dynamic reality of which the manifold forms of the universe are dreamlike projections. I specifically refer to three traditions-or lineages of teachers (santana, parampard) and
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citation span | 1970 - 2025 (56) |
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