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| | Trika Shaivism |
 | | Trika Shaivism incorporated Tantric and Buddhist influences and adopted a monistic metaphysical doctrine similar to Advaita Vedanta (nondualist). | | | And in Kashmir itself, the dominant Shaiva doctrine is Shaiva Siddhanta, while the principal Shaiva cult is the worship of Svacandra Bhairava, which is a form of Shaivism between the two extremes of nonduality and duality (see Kashmir Shaivism, Shaiva Siddhanta, and Svacandra Bhairavas). | | | Abhinavagupta, the greatest thinker of the sect, considered the Malinivijayottara Tantra the fundamental scripture of the Trika and the essence of multi-branched Shaivism. |
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| | Kashmir Shaivism |
| | The centre of Kashmir Shaivism was at Shrinagar in Kashmir and the Amarnath cave near Shrinagar, where there is a naturally occurring Shiva linga or symbol of the God, is a centre of pilgrimage for many Shaivas. | | | Kashmir Shaivism developed from about the ninth century CE and is based upon the revelation of texts called Tantras. | | | Kashmir Shaivism relegated the dualistic Tantras of the Shaiva Siddhanta, whose doctrines and practices it assumes, to a lower level of revelation. |
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| | Introduction |
| | Kashmir Shaivism holds that it is by the grace of God (Saktipata)--in the form of the grace of the master--that Lord Shiva is revealed. | | | For the Kashmir Shaiva truth, as universal, is said to be anirvacaniya, unspeakable. | | | Kashmir Shaivism has revealed three means to enter from individual limited consciousness to universal God Consciousness. |
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| | CONVERTED KASHMIR: Memorial of Mistakes |
| | According to Kalhana, under the supervision of Nagarjun Buddhisms spread in Kashmir and Mahayana was established. | | | Kanishka adopted Buddhism and made Kashmir a powerful centre for prorogating this faith. | | | Jalok re-established Sanatan Dharam in Kashmir and he himself was a believer in nonviolence. |
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| | The Texts of Kashmir Shaivism - Siddha Yoga Meditation |
| | The Shiva Sutras are the scriptural authority for Kashmir Shaivism. | | | One of the cornerstones of the Siddha Yoga tradition, Kashmir Shaivism is a branch of the Shaivite philosophical tradition that explains how the formless supreme principle, known as Shiva, manifests the universe. | | | One of the fundamental scriptures of Kashmir Shaivism, this ninth-century collection of 53 verses describes how the yogi who remains alert can perceive the divine vibration, or spanda, in all moments of daily life, thus regaining the vision of unity-consciousness. |
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| | Kashmir: People & Region |
| | Kashmiri Shaivism does not advocate a life of renunciation (Sannyasahood) or profession of monks, but recommends an active householder's life with daily practice of worship, yoga and meditation. | | | All other deities (gods and goddesses) of the traditional Hindu pantheon are worshipped as various manifestations of Shiva and Shakti. | | | In Kashmiri Shaivism we find a type of religious thought which synthesizes pluralism, dualism, and the Buddhist doctrine of Shunya, and develops a nondualist philosophy which is sweet, sublime and constructive. |
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| | Kashmir Shaivism |
| | Shaivism is a nondual philosophy that recognizes and explains the universe as a manifestation of one divine, conscious energy. | | | Considered the most important scripture in the Trika system of Kashmir Shaivism, these revealed truths explain the nature and cause of bondage and the means to liberation. | | | Baba's superb commentaries on the scriptures upon which Siddha Yoga meditation is based. |
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| | Nityananda Institute - Spiritual Practice - Kashmir Shaivism |
| | From about 700 to 1100 c.e., Kashmir was the spiritual, cultural, and intellectual center for some of the most sophisticated spiritual practitioners of the time. | | | A highly refined articulation of the experience of the spiritual work we do at Nityananda Institute is embodied in the philosophy of the Trika Yoga practice, also known as Kashmir Shaivism. | | | The systematic growth of Kashmir Shaivism unfolded as practitioners reflected on the nature of the highest reality, describing it as pure Consciousness. |
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| | Kashmir Shaivism |
| | The Tantric cult was in vogue in Kashmir before the spread of Buddhism, Savism and Vaisnavism. | | | The Tantra is referred to in the works of acknowledged Vaisnava sastra; the Deve Bhagvata in the ninth skando speaks of it as a Vedanta and Saivism got asecndaney over Buddhism. | | | The Rudrayamal grantha that deals with the source of hymns and thousands of names of the various gods ard goddesses is available only in a fragmental form. |
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| | ShivaLinks2 |
| | Shaivism is the religion that holds Lord Shiva as God or the Supreme Spirit that pervades the entire universe and, at the same time, resides in every being. | | | The Shaiva schools are the philosophical systems within the fold of Shaivism, a religious sect that worships Shiva as the highest deity. | | | Doctrines, The Shaiva Siddhanta is a Hindu tradition whose focus of worship is Shiva. |
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| | Kashmir Shaivism |
| | She was an ardent practitioner of Kashmir Shaivism which is also known as Trika Shastra founded by Vasu Gupta. | | | Kashmir, often described as the abode of saints, has produced a number of spiritually evolved persons. | | | Together with Vedanta, Kashmir Shaivism provides the basic scriptural context for Siddha Yoga meditation. |
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| | KashmirShaivism |
| | The Shiva School of Meditation is a school of Kashmir Shaivite study and practise. | | | The Shiva School of Kashmir Shaivism uses the texts of the Shiva Sutras, the Spanda Karikas, the Pratyabhijnahrdayam, the Vijnanabhairava, and others, to tap into the sublime teachings of the tradition. | | | Muktananda had a significant impact among thousands of spiritual seekers because he transmitted the experience of Shaivism through the spiritual awakening of shaktipat. |
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| | Trika Shaivism |
| | Trika Shaivism's major historic roots are in the indigenous pagan religions and the Tantric religion found in that area. | | | Trika Shaivism is a form of Hindu religion that believes in one God, which they call ParamaShiva, who creates the universe within Himself out of his own pure cosmic conscious Being. | | | But the most important activity is realization of one's own true identity with the supreme consciousness which leads to spiritual liberation which is complete freedom from the wheel of life and death. |
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| | SivaSakti.COM - Introduction To Shaivism. Part 2 |
| | Finally, the last to continue this famous and spiritual lineage of the Kashmir Shaivism was Swami Brahmacharin Lakshman (Lakshmanji), who lived until 1992. | | | His most important work, Tantraloka, is written in verse and unifies all apparent differences between the Kashmir Shaivism branches or schools, offering a coherent and complete vision of the system. | | | There are testimonies according to which Jesus was in Kashmir from the age of 12 until he turned 30. |
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| | KashmirShaivism |
| | From the valley of Kashmir in northern India, the principles of Shaivism were first written down in the ninth century. | | | Well-suited to anyone seeking a spiritual path, Shaivism says “Everything is Consciousness.” It accepts worldly life and divinises it, offering a liberating path of lively spirituality right in the midst of your outer life. | | | The Shiva School of Meditation has become a great centre of Shaivite learning. |
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| | esamskriti- An Introduction to Kashmir Shaivism |
| | Kashmir Shaivism is the school of Indian philosophy, which can inspire us for both material and spiritual progress. | | | Kashmir was the seat of learning along with Benaras in ancient Northern India. | | | It is a process of recognizing or discovery of individual soul as one with the Universal Being through correct knowledge of the "Descend" from Godhood to manhood. |
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| | Kashmir Shaivism |
| | Thus Kashmir Shaivism appears to have attempted a reconciliation of the Iranian religion with its Vedic parent. | | | The intellectual theories of Kashmir Shaivism were given popular expression by the great mystic Lalleshvari or Lalla (1335-1376). | | | Even the Iranian religion of Zarathushtra may be seen as reformulation of the earlier Vedic tradition (Boyce 1975) in the same sense that Vaishnavism is. |
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| | Voice of Jammu Kashmir |
| | On this scriptural foundation arose the school known as Kashmir Shaivism. | | | The learned Saivist scholar and mystic popularly known as Swami Lakshaman Joo taught 'Kashmir Shaivism' at his beautiful 'Ishwara Ashram' on the banks of Dal Lake in Nishat Srinagar for half a century. | | | The highest aim of the Saivists, Vedists, Buddhists and Taoists is to become aware of the unity and mutual inter-relation of things, to transcend the notion of all isolated individual self and to identify themselves with the ultimate reality. |
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| | Swami Lakshmanjoo and The Cosmic Dance Of Shiva: Hindu Buddha Christ |
| | Kali in Kashmir Shaivism (The Teachings of His Holiness Swami Lakshmanjoo) | | | The knowledge of Kashmir Shaivism was traditionally passed only by oral communication or other unseen means, directly from master to disciple. | | | Not only was he the last living representative of the lineage of teachers of Kashmir Shaivism, he was the only remaining repository of its oral teachings. |
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| | Four Yogas bookstore - Shaivism |
| | Ancient Kashmir was a source for both Buddhist and Hindu spirituality and learning. | | | Many of the metaphors of the nondual awareness school were handed down to our present day through generations of mystics and scholars and provide an extraordinarily rich source for meditative expansion and stabilization. | | | The Heart as a metaphor for the enlightened experience of consciousness was masterfully revealed by the great Shaivist sage, mystic and scholar Abhinavagupta. |
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| | Muktabodha Institute Seminars |
| | This same traditional method was used by two of India’s leading scholars of Kashmir Shaivism when they taught a month-long scriptural study seminar, conducted by Muktabodha in the potent spiritual retreat site of Gurudev Siddha Peeth. | | | Participants were also given the opportunity to take part in classical spiritual practices such as namasankirtana and meditation as a way to align themselves with the spirit of Kashmir Shaivism. | | | As part of its expanding work in supporting the scholarly study of Indian religious and philosophical texts illumined by the experiental knowledge of the spiritual practitioner, Muktabodha recently held a seminar on Kashmir Shaivism in Varanasi, India. |
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| | Kundalini Rising - A Comparative Thesis on Thelema and Kashmir Shaivism |
| | Both Kashmir Shaivism and Thelemic philosophy both extricate the simple pleasures of life from the oppressive grip of the guilt inspiring dominator culture and lift them to pinnacles of reverence, whereby the pleasures themselves become the means of union. | | | Out of all the possible mystical paths to one's Godhead, the schools of Thelema and Kashmir Shaivism are two that concur on the fact that man's divinity is self manifest or preeminent, without struggle, process or need for technique. | | | Lastly, it should be emphasized, that to live as a "Kingly Man", one should not turn away from the joys and ecstasies of life, as the slave minds of the moral majority do who live under the yoke of another man's ideologies. |
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| | Non-dual Shaivism of Kashmir: Part 1 |
| | Well, he was a celebrated Buddhist teacher who lived about 500-700 A.D. Vasugupta lived in Kashmir about 900 A.D. Naagabodhi wrote "Shriiguhyasamaajamandalopaayikaavimshavidhi" (a long name) which is based on "Guhyasamaaja" (a Buddhist Tantra). | | | The doctrines taught by these Buddhist teachers (Naagabodhi and the rest) did not agree with that taught by Vasugupta, specially as far as the nature of Ultimate Reality is concerned. | | | Despite the aforesaid unity, man has somehow forgotten this truth, has forgotten his divine nature and fallen into the ignorance. |
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| | Kashmir Shaivism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | One of the greatest modern gurus of Kashmir Shaivism was Swami Lakshmanjoo who passed on the tradition in his texts The Secret Supreme, Lectures on Practice and Discipline in Kashmir Shaivism and the collection of his oral teachings edited by John Hughes, Self Realization in Kashmir Shaivism. | | | Abhinavagupta writes from an esoteric internalized form of Tantra which places its emphasis on the role of insight into the true nature of reality and meditative mysticism. | | | Kashmir Shaivism reached its culmination in the philosophy of Abhinavagupta and Kshemaraja (tenth to eleventh century CE). |
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| | Adherents.com |
| | "Shaivism is a more coherent entity than Vaishnavism, but there are several different schools with their own teachings, in particular the monistic school of Kashmir Shaivism and the south Indian school of Shaiva Siddhanta... | | | The southern Indian state of Tamilnadu became the stronghold of Shiva worship, or Shaivism, perhaps because of the strong Dravidian presence. | | | "Shaivism, or Shivaism; one of the three major devotional movements in modern-day Hinduism. |
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| | Nityanand Shastri Kashmir Research Institute (NSKRI) |
| | Kokiloo is a noted scholar of Kashmir Shaivism. | | | According to this legend, when the Adi Shankaracharya went to Kashmir, he asked one of his disciples to obtain a copy of the Brahma Sutras from the nearby library. | | | He quietly decided to leave Kashmir and go to Varanasi, the greatest centre of Sanskrit studies in the country. |
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| | 'KASHMIR SHIVA SCHOLARSHIP IN DANGER' --SEMINAR |
| | Explaining further he commented that Kashmir Shaivism accepts life in total and its roots are not in fragmentation. | | | Abhinav Gupta's Tantraloka is the greatest treatises on religious thought.' Dr Karan Singh while concluding his speech paid tributes to great Shaiva saint scholar Swami Laxman Joo. | | | of Sanskrit Lal Bahadhur Shastri Sanskrit Vidyapeeth New Delhi while agreeing with many of the elucidations of Dr Rastogi cautioned that emphasis on delinking the Kashmir Shaiva thought from the Vedic sources is not well founded. |
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| | Kashmir Shaivism |
| | Kashmir Shaivism: Hymn to Shiva Shakti by R. Sapru | | | Fundamental Aspect of Vedanta and Kashmir Shaivism by Jankinath Kaul "Kamal" | | | This very approach explained in these Tantras is called Kashmir Shaivism or Trika philosophy. |
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| | The Shiva Sutras |
| | Shiva Sutra is divided into three sections and gives the core of the inner yoga practice and philosophy not only of Kashmir Shaivism but also of many other tantrik traditions. | | | Shiva Sutra is a central text for Kashmir Shaivism. | | | I first translated these mysterious verses in 1978, said to have been revealed to a sage Vasugupta in a dream. |
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| | Suggested Readings on Shaivism in Kashmir |
| | English and Sanskrit] Shaiva devotional songs of Kashmir : a translation and study of Utpaladeva's Shivastotravali / Constantina Rhodes Bailly. | | | NOTES: "Published by the Research department, Srinagar, Kashmir." Old Kashmiri text with Sanskrit commentary by the author. | | | TITLE: Catalogue of the Sanskrit manuscripts in the Raghunatha temple library of His Highness the Maharaja of Jammu and |
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| | Muktabodha Institute Home Page |
| | An authority in the field of Kashmir Shaivism, he is the author of approximately 50 books and 200 essays written in both Hindi and Sanskrit. | | | After retirement, he has been a scholar at the Ranvir Kendri Sanskrit Vidya Peeth, Jammu. | | | He has an MA in Sanskrit from Agra University and the Sahityaratna degree from Allahabad University. |
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| | Nityananda Institute |
| | The core of the spiritual practice at Nityananda Institute is Trika Yoga, a system derived from the nondualistic philosophy of Kashmir Shaivism. | | | As a tantric practice, Trika Yoga is about the power of personal transformation. | | | We have meditation centers in Santa Monica, California, New York City, Boston, and Oslo, Norway, and a retreat and research center in Kathmandu, Nepal. |
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| | welcome to Kashmir Trika Foundation..... |
| | Our mission is to preserve and make available the teachings of Kashmir Shaivism as taught by Swami Lakshmanjoo, Catalogue and Preserve the ancient teachings of Kashmir Shaivism, and help promote the preservation and broader understanding of Kashmir Shaivism. | | | The Kashmir Trika Foundation was formally established in 2002 as a Non-Profit 501 (c) (3) Educational Organization to further the understanding of Kashmir Shaivism (we had previously served the community under the Kashmir Shaivism Fellowship name). |
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| | This page was built in September of 1996 to provide a medium through which the largely unknown philosophy of Kashmir Shaivism, as taught by the great Kashmiri Shaivite Master Swami Lakshman Joo, could be made avilable to anyone and everyone with no restriction of caste, ethnic origin, color, race, or sex. | | | If you have any questions or comments please contact the |
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| | Kashmir Shaivism's Fifteen (15) Verses of Wisdom |
| | Fifteen Verses of Wisdom (bodhapancadasika) by Abhinavagupta, the great master of all aspects of Kashmir Shaivism. | | | The brilliance of the One Being's light does not vanish in external light or in darkness because all light and darkness resides in the supreme light of God Consciousness. | | | These fifteen verses provide a brief exposition, and capture the essence, of the doctrine of Kashmir Shaivism. |
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| | Kashmir Shaivism Teachings |
| | It is the life and glory of Shiva. | | | In Kashmir Shaivism, there is a second way that prana kundalini may rise. | | | In our Trika Shaivism, kundalini, which is that internal serpent power existing in the shape of a coil, is divided in three ways. |
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| | DoYoga; Hatha Yoga in the Anusara Style with Doug Keller |
| | Introduction to fundamental mantras for meditation, and guided 10-minute meditations based on dharanas from the Kashmir Shaivite text, the Vijnanabhairava. | | | His presentation is utterly unique in its steady, progressive, gentle and meditative approach that gives a firm grounding in the fundamentals of the breath while introducing students to the profound spiritual art of the natural breath in the tradition of Kashmir Shaivism. | | | A guided practice with explanation of the fundamental practices of pranayama. |
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| | Nityananda Institute Resource Center: Links |
| | Articles on Shaivism by Swami Lakshmanjoo and some of his disciples | | | Articles on Shaivism sponsored by the Kashmiri Overseas Association, an organization dedicated to the preservation of Kashmir's cultural heritage. | | | Please note that a listing on this page does not imply that Nityananda Institute endorses the content, organizations or individuals maintaining these sites. |
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| | kashmir shawl -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Although woolen shawls were mentioned in writings of the 3rd century BC and the 11th century AD, it is only in the 16th century that the first specific references to Kashmir work appeared. | | | The period of the 19th century up to the 1870s, when the fashion silhouette changed, was known as the “shawl period” because women in Europe and America... | | | Discusses the nature of the conflict between India and Pakistan over territory in Kashmir. |
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: Kashmir Shaivism: The Secret Supreme |
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| | WWW : Visit Kashmir website: Lal Ded's Vakhs (Shaivism in Kashmir) |
| | Netters: Visit: http://webusers.anet-dfw.com/~koausa/koa.html ***************************************************** Visit our updated Website on Kashmir: http://webusers.anet-dfw.com/~kashyap/Kashmir.html Kashmir is an integral part of India. | | | Subject: WWW : Visit Kashmir website: Lal Ded's Vakhs (Shaivism in Kashmir) | | | WWW : Visit Kashmir website: Lal Ded's Vakhs (Shaivism in Kashmir) |
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| | Publications |
| | Kundalini Vijnana Rahasyam - Part I - by Swami Lakshman Joo (PDF File - 71 Secs at 28.8 Modem) | | | Kashmir Shaivism - by Swami Lakshman Joo (PDF - 129 Secs @ 28.8 Modem) | | | Turiya and Turiyatita in Kashmir Shaivism - by Swami Lakshman Joo (PDF - 32 Secs @ 28.8 Modem) |
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