Around Abhinavagupta: Aspects of the Intellectual History of Kashmir from the Ninth to the Eleventh Century (6) (Leipziger Studien zu Kultur und Geschichte Sud- und Zentralasiens)

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. Contents 6 Introduction 8 Tantric Scriptures in the rNying ma rgyud ’bum Believed to Have Been Transmitted to Tibet by Kashmiris: A Preliminary Survey • Orna Almogi 22 The World on Show, or Sensibility in Disguise. Philosophical and Aesthetic Issues in a Stanza by Abhinavagupta (Tantrāloka I 332, Locana ad Dhvanyāloka I 13) • Lyne Bansat-Boudon 54 Understanding Udbhaṭa: The Invention of Kashmiri Poetics in the Jayāpīḍa Moment • Yigal Bronner 102 A Hypothesis on Ruyyaka’s Alaṃkārasarvasva in the Light of Jayaratha’s Vimarśinī • Daniele Cuneo 170 Why Isn’t “Comparison” a Means of Knowledge? Bhāsarvajña on Upamāna • Eli Franco 192 Elements of Ritual Speculation in the Abhinavabhāratī: Abhinavagupta on the Visible and Invisible Purposes of the Pūrvaraṅga • Elisa Ganser 210 The Force of Tātparya: Bhaṭṭa Jayanta and Abhinavagupta • Alessandro Graheli 252 Abhinavagupta as Intellectual Historian of Buddhism • Lawrence McCrea 284 A Note on the Sāṅkhya Theory of Causation in Utpaladeva’s Īśvarasiddhi • Shinya Moriyama 308 Jayanta as Referred to by Udayana and Gaṅgeśa • Yasutaka Muroya 320 Influences on and Legacies of Somānanda’s Conception of Materiality • John Nemec 362 Some Hitherto Unknown Fragments of Utpaladeva’s Vivṛti (III): On Memory and Error • Isabelle Ratié 396 Ānandavardhana and Abhinavagupta on the Limits of Rasa-Dhvani: A Reading of DhvĀ 3.43 • David Shulman 422 A Vaiṣṇava Paramādvaita in 10th-Century Kashmir? The Work of Vāmanadatta • Raffaele Torella 446 Theatre, Acting and the Image of the Actor in Abhinavagupta’s Tantric Sources • Judit Törzsök 472 Lakṣaṇam Aparyālocitābhidhānam – Śobhākara’s Resistance to Ruyyaka • Somdev Vasudeva 516 Helārāja on Omniscience, Āgama, and the Origin of Language • Vincenzo Vergiani 552 Kashmiri Brahmins under the Kārkoṭa, Utpala and Lohara Dynasties, 625-1151 CE • Michael Witzel 630 Transmission of the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā and Prasannapadā to Tibet from Kashmir • Chizuko Yoshimizu 666 Abhinavagupta is undoubtedly the most famous Kashmirian medieval 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. ( Leipzig Studies on the Culture and History of South and Central Asia / Leipziger Studien zu Kultur und Geschichte Sud- und Zentralasiens, Vol. 6) [ History, Abhinavagupta, India Studies, Religious Studies] Abhinavagupta is undoubtedly the most famous Kashmirian medieval intellectual: his decisive contributions to Indian aesthetics, Śaiva theology and metaphysics, and to the philosophy of the subtle and original Pratyabhijña 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 not less exceptional than Abhinavagupta himself.