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

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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 Introduction Tantric Scriptures in the rNying ma rgyud ’bum Believed to Have Been Transmitted to Tibet by Kashmiris: A Preliminary Survey • Orna Almogi 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 Understanding Udbhaṭa: The Invention of Kashmiri Poetics in the Jayāpīḍa Moment • Yigal Bronner A Hypothesis on Ruyyaka’s Alaṃkārasarvasva in the Light of Jayaratha’s Vimarśinī • Daniele Cuneo Why Isn’t “Comparison” a Means of Knowledge? Bhāsarvajña on Upamāna • Eli Franco Elements of Ritual Speculation in the Abhinavabhāratī: Abhinavagupta on the Visible and Invisible Purposes of the Pūrvaraṅga • Elisa Ganser The Force of Tātparya: Bhaṭṭa Jayanta and Abhinavagupta • Alessandro Graheli Abhinavagupta as Intellectual Historian of Buddhism • Lawrence McCrea A Note on the Sāṅkhya Theory of Causation in Utpaladeva’s Īśvarasiddhi • Shinya Moriyama Jayanta as Referred to by Udayana and Gaṅgeśa • Yasutaka Muroya Influences on and Legacies of Somānanda’s Conception of Materiality • John Nemec Some Hitherto Unknown Fragments of Utpaladeva’s Vivṛti (III): On Memory and Error • Isabelle Ratié Ānandavardhana and Abhinavagupta on the Limits of Rasa-Dhvani: A Reading of DhvĀ 3.43 • David Shulman A Vaiṣṇava Paramādvaita in 10th-Century Kashmir? The Work of Vāmanadatta • Raffaele Torella Theatre, Acting and the Image of the Actor in Abhinavagupta’s Tantric Sources • Judit Törzsök Lakṣaṇam Aparyālocitābhidhānam – Śobhākara’s Resistance to Ruyyaka • Somdev Vasudeva Helārāja on Omniscience, Āgama, and the Origin of Language • Vincenzo Vergiani Kashmiri Brahmins under the Kārkoṭa, Utpala and Lohara Dynasties, 625-1151 CE • Michael Witzel Transmission of the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā and Prasannapadā to Tibet from Kashmir • Chizuko Yoshimizu