Kashmir Shaivism
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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.