Kshemaraja
क्षेमराज kṣemarājaAbhinavagupta's direct disciple and the great populariser of Kashmir Shaivism, author of the concise Pratyabhijnahridaya, the 'heart of recognition'.
Where this term appears
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
It is a different scheme doing a different job, and Kshemaraja, glossing it, calls its members srotas as well and says each has its own deities and its own observance, "not mixed." The word does more than one j…
- Who was Abhinavagupta? Lineages
And at his side, taking down his words as he speaks, sits his disciple Kshemaraja.
- What is Kashmir Shaivism? Philosophy
The famous opening sutra of Kshemaraja's Pratyabhijnahridaya puts the whole metaphysics in five words: चितिः स्वतन्त्रा विश्वसिद्धिहेतुः ॥ citih svatantra vishva-siddhi-hetuh — Pratyabhijñāhṛdayam 1 "Consciousn…
- Who is Bhairava? Deities
The commentator Kshemaraja, glossing the same name, offers another angle: Bhairava is the one who makes the frightened soul cry out in the terror of bhava , worldly existence, and who, in answer to that cry, re…
- The two seats: how the tantric canon was actually organised Lineages
…, in a verse that appears to quote the now-lost Sarvavīratantra , and Kshemaraja cites the same verse from the same lost source in his commentary on the Svacchanda .
- The bazaar press Treatise
The archive.org copy names Kṣemarāja Śrīkṛṣṇadās on the imprint, which is Khemraj Shrikrishnadas, the same publishing family whose catalogue this chapter has been reading.
- The Kashmir Foundation Treatise
One of them, possibly the disciple Abhinavagupta refers to as Kshema , was the figure who would become — by any later assessment — Abhinavagupta’s most consequential intellectual heir. Kshemaraja (c.
- The Shape Of The Whole Treatise
…al Kashmir scholars (Vasugupta, Somananda, Utpaladeva, Abhinavagupta, Kshemaraja, Jayaratha, Punyananda, Amritananda) developing the textual heritage all the subsequent lineages would inherit.