Spanda
स्पन्द spanda'Vibration, throb.' In Kashmir Shaivism, the subtle pulse by which the one consciousness stirs within itself and appears as a world without ceasing to be one.
Where this term appears
- Who was Abhinavagupta? Lineages
Abhinavagupta (c. 950 to 1016 CE) was a Kashmiri philosopher, tantric master and aesthetician, the towering systematiser of the non-dual Shaiva traditions of…
- What is Kashmir Shaivism? Philosophy
The names: Trika, Spanda, Pratyabhijna, Kula "Kashmir Shaivism" is a modern label, popularised in the twentieth century.
- What is Shakti? Essentials
That living self-awareness has a texture, and the tradition names it spanda , "vibration," a subtle throb or pulse.
- The Vijnana Bhairava Tantra Lineages
That primordial throb the tradition calls spanda , the pulse, the subtle stir by which the motionless absolute becomes a moving world; the scholar Mark Dyczkowski has called it the vibratory dynamism of conscio…
- Lila: The World as Divine Play Essentials
…le supreme awareness, described in that tradition's vocabulary as its spanda or creative throb, and creation is the play of that consciousness deliberately forgetting itself, scattering into countless limited b…
- The Contemporary Scholar-Practitioner Treatise
…larly work — including his comprehensive Doctrine of Vibration on the Spanda tradition (1987, SUNY Press), the 12-volume Manthanabhairava Tantra edition, the 11-volume Tantraloka edition with Jayaratha’s commen…
- The Kashmir Foundation Treatise
Vasugupta’s own Spanda Karikas — the Verses on Vibration , sometimes attributed to his disciple Kallata — established the second of the Kashmir Shaiva doctrinal sub-streams: the Spanda (Vibration) school, paral…
- The metaphysics Treatise
Kashmir Shaivism calls its inner life spanda , a word usually rendered as vibration or throb, the subtle pulse by which the still light stirs into self-expression and becomes a world without ever ceasing to be …