Around Abhinavagupta: Aspects of the Intellectual History of Kashmir from the Ninth to the Eleventh Century Volume 6

by Eli Franco (Editor), Isabelle Ratie (Editor)

Overview

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 historical, social, artistic, religious, and philosophical context in which they are embedded. The purpose of this book is to show that this intellectual background is no less exceptional than Abhinavagupta himself.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783643906977
Publisher:	Lit Verlag
Publication date:	12/15/2016
Series:	Leipziger Studien zu Kultur und Geschichte Sud- und Zentralasiens , #6
Pages:	684
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.50(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

Tantric Scriptures in the rNying ma rgyud 'bum Believed to Have Been Transmitted to Tibet by Kashmiris: A Preliminary Survey Orna Almogi (University of Hamburg) 1

The World on Show, or Sensibility in Disguise. Philosophical and Aesthetic Issues in a Stanza by Abhinavagupta (Tantraloka I 332, Locano ad Dhvanyaloka I 13) Lyne Bansat-Boudon (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris) 33

Understanding Udbhata: The Invention of Kashmiri Poetics in the Jayapida Moment Yigal Bronner (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) 81

A Hypothesis on Ruyyaka's Alamkarasarvasva in the Light of Jayaratha's Vimarsini Daniele Cuneo (Leiden University) 149

Why Isn't "Comparison" a Means of Knowledge? Bhasarvajña on Upamana Eli Franco (University of Leipzig) 171

Elements of Ritual Speculation in the Abhinavabharati: Abhinavagupta on the Visible and Invisible Purposes of the Purvaranga Elisa Ganser (University of Zurich) 189

The Force of Tatparya: Bhatta Jayanta and Abhinavagupta Alessandro Graheli (University of Vienna) 231

Abhinavagupta as Intellectual Historian of Buddhism Lawrence McCrea (Cornell University, Ithaca) 263

A Note on the Sankhya Theory of Causation in Utpaladeva's Isvarasiddhi Shinya Moriyama (Shinshu University, Matsumoto) 287

Jayanta as Referred to by Udayana and Gangesa Yasutaka Muroya (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna) 299

Influences on and Legacies of Somananda's Conception of Materiality John Nemec (University of Virginia, Charlottesville) 341

Some Hitherto Unknown Fragments of Utpaladeva's Vivrti (III): On Memory and Error Isabelle Ratié (Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris) 375

Anandavardhana and Abhinavagupta on the Limits of Rasa-Dhvani: A Reading of Dhv A 3.43 David Shulman (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) 401

A Vaisnava Paramadvaita in 10th-Century Kashmir? The Work of Vamanadatta Raffaele Torella (Sapienza University, Rome) 425

Theatre, Acting and the Image of the Actor in Abhinavagupta's Tantric Sources Judit Törzsök (University of Lille 3) 451

Laksanam Aparyalocitabhidhanam - Sobhakara's Resistance to Ruyyaka Somdev Vasudeva (Kyoto University) 495

Helaraja on Omniscience, Agama, and the Origin of Language Vincenzo Vergiani (University of Cambridge) 531

Kashmiri Brahmins under the Karkota, Utpala and Lohara Dynasties, 625-1151 CE Michael Witzel (Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.) 609

Transmission of the Mulamadhyamakakarika and Prasannapada to Tibet from Kashmir Chizuko Yoshimizu (University of Tsukuba) 645