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Kashmir Shaivism                                                             

21st February, 2022 Art & Culture

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Context: The Kashmir Shaiva Institute (KSI) will come up as the first research, studies and publications centre on Kashmir Shaivism.

  • The institute will be based in Jammu.
  • Focus Areas of the studies, research and teachings: to enhance reach of the Shaiva philosophy "

 

About Kashmir Shaivism:

  • It is a group of several monistic and tantric religious traditions that flourished in Kashmir from the latter centuries of the first millennium C.E.
  • It is also called
  • This religious and philosophical system of India worships the god Shiva as the supreme reality.
  • The school is idealistic and monistic, as contrasted with the realistic and dualistic school of Shaiva-siddhanta.
  • The principal texts of the school are the Shiva-sutra.
  • For the adherents of Kashmiri Shaivism, liberation (moksha) comes about through intense meditation on Shiva as the supreme reality and recognition of the supreme reality’s identity with the individual soul.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/ksi-to-be-first-research-studies-centre-on-kashmir-shaivism/article65069285.ece?homepage=true