Abhinavagupta's Philosophy of Revelation: An Edition and Annotated Translation of Mālinīślokavārttika I, 1-399

by Paul Vogt and Jürgen Hanneder

The first part of the 'Versified Commentary on the Mālinītantra' (Mālinīślokvārttika) by the tenth-century theologian Abhinavagupta, which is translated here for the first time, presents a philosophy of Śaiva revelation, conceived of as a descent of the highest non-dual form of knowledge, through the different levels of speech, into the knowledge embodied in the canon of Tantras or Agamas on which the Śaiva...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9069801167
• ISBN13: 9789069801162
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.4"