The Triadic Heart of Śiva: Kaula Tantricism of Abhinavagupta in the Non-Dual Shaivism of Kashmir

Abstract

The two recent publications in the SUNY Series in the Shaiva Traditions of Kashmir reviewed here are valuable studies concentrating on particular aspects of Saiva doctrine and practice. KundainT: The Energy of the Depths is a translation of La Kun.dalinlou I'Energie des Profondeurs, which was first published by Les Deux Oceans, Paris, in 1983. All who have studied India's Tantric and yogic traditions will have some familiarity with KundalinT, the divine Sakti represented as a snake sleeping coiled in the lowest cakra at the base of the spine, who is aroused and made to ascend, piercing the successive cakras and thereby purifying or transmuting ordinary experience-until she unites with the Ultimate Deity in the highest cakra and liberation is achieved. Lilian Silburn, who studied for a long time with the pandit and holy man Lakshman Joo, has established herself through her many translations and studies over thirty years as one of the most important scholars of the Saivism of Kashmir. In this book Silburn has translated and commented

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