The Stanzas on Vibration: The SpandaKārikā with Four Commentaries: The SpandaSaṃdoha by Kṣemarāja, The SpandaVṛttti by Kallatabhatta, The SpandaVivṛti by Rājānaka Rāma, The SpandaPradpīkā by Bhagavadutpala

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State University of New York Press, Sep 30, 1992 - Religion - 427 pages
In his Doctrine of Vibration, the author presents a synthesis of Kashmir Shaivism—an overview with Spanda as the central theme. Spanda is the vibratory dynamism of the absolute consciousness. In this book the author focuses on the school of Kashmir Shaivism that presents this doctrine as its cardinal principle and whose literature consists essentially of the works translated here.

In his Introduction and in his exposition of the four commentaries, the author shows both how the Spanda tradition contributes to the other schools of Kashmir Shaivism and how it is different from them. He presents for the first time a detailed treatment of this tradition and an analysis of its development. The aim is to offer a method that affords access by the general reader to the wonderful world of the Spanda Yogi through which she travels to the liberating realization of her authentic identity vibrant with the vitality of the universal pulse of Shiva.
 

Contents

General Background
3
The Origin of the Aphorisms of Śiva
11
Basic Features of the Stanzas on Vibration
19
The Commentators on the Stanzas on Vibration
25
The Doctrine of Vibration and Recognition
33
The Vibration of Consciousness
49
The Essence of Vibration the SpandaSamdoha by Kṣemarāja
61
The Stanzas on Vibration with the Brief Explanation
73
The Stanzas on Vibration with a Commentary called the Lamp
139
The Means to Realization
269
The Transition of the Moment
275
The Sources
285
Location of References to the Stanzas on Vibration
307
Notes
313
Bibliography
405
Index
411

The Second Flow called The Direct Perception
94
The Third Flow called The Tenability of the Power
106

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Mark S. G. Dyczkowski took his first degree at Banaras Hindu University and then his doctorate at Oxford. He is presently associated with Sampurnananda Sanskrit University in Varanasi. He is the author of The Doctrine of Vibration: An Analysis of the Doctrine and Practices of Kashmir Shaivism; The Canon of the Saivagama and the Kubjika: Tantras of the Western Kaula Tradition; and The Aphorisms of Shiva: The Shiva Sutra with a Commentary by Bhaskara, all published by SUNY Press.

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