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Kashmiri Shaiva Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (3513 words) |
 | Utpaladeva and Abhinavagupta ambitiously conceive the Pratyabhijnā system as both a philosophical apologetics (which follows Sanskritic standards of scholastic argument) and an internalized form of tantric ritual that leads students directly to identification with Shiva. |
| Utpaladeva and Abhinavagupta refute the Buddhist contention that recognition is a contingent reaction to direct experience by claiming that it is integral or transcendental to all experience. |
| Utpaladeva describes the method of the Pratyabhijnā philosophy, in a manner homologous to the epistemology of recognition, as leading to salvation through the contemplation of one's status as the agent of the universe. |
| Saints and Sages: Utpaladeva (181 words) |
| From some authors on Kashmir Shaivism and his contemporaries we find that he was a Brahmin and lived a married life around the middle of 900 A.D. He was the son of Udayakar. |
| Utpaladeva must have been a precocious boy with a sharp intellect and a quest for learning. |
| This becomes evident from the fact that he was taken as a disciple by the great philosopher. |
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