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…
- Mantroddhara: the key printed above the lock Lineages
And this is not a slip. Kṣemarāja, Abhinavagupta's pupil, says the order is standard.
- The Krama: the school that worshipped a sequence Lineages
Kshemaraja, Abhinavagupta's pupil, uses a fourth version: udyoga , the initial exertion; avabhasana ; charvana ; vilapana , dissolution.
- The Nisvasa: the oldest tantra, and what it does not yet know Lineages
…the basis of the majority Shaiva cult of medieval Kashmir and the one Kshemaraja chose to comment on in the eleventh century.
- The Svacchanda Tantra: the fight over what was in the cup Lineages
People, he said, were reading it as water. The scholar's name was Kshemaraja.