Abhinavagupta ~ Living Liberation (Jivanmukti) ~ Kashmir Shaivism

This is a selection of some key teachings of Abhinavagupta
extracted from various sources and texts. Abhinavagupta (c. 950 –
1016 CE ) was a philosopher, mystic and aesthetician from
Kashmir. He was also considered an influential musician, poet,
dramatist, exegete, theologian, and logician – a polymathic
personality who exercised strong influences on Indian culture.
Abhinavagupta was born in a Brahmin family of scholars and
mystics and studied all the schools of philosophy and art of his
time under the guidance of as many as fifteen (or more) teachers
and gurus.  In his long life he completed over 35 works, the
largest and most famous of which is Tantrāloka, an encyclopedic
treatise on all the philosophical and practical aspects of Kaula
and Trika (known today as Kashmir Shaivism).


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