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incorporates many sub-traditions
ranging from
devotional dualistic theism such as
Shaiva Siddhanta to yoga-orientated
monistic non-theism such as
Kashmiri Shaivism...
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Shaiva Siddhanta (IAST: Śaiva-siddhānta) is a form of
Shaivism po****r in a
pristine form in
South India and Sri
Lanka and in a
Tantrayana syncretised...
-
Shaivism tradition, also
called Trika Shaivism, is a non-dualist
branch of
Shaiva-Shakta
Tantra Hinduism that
originated in
Kashmir after 850 CE. In its place...
- Tiruñāṉacampantar), was a
Shaiva poet-saint of
Tamil Nadu who
lived sometime in the 7th
century CE.
According to the
Tamil Shaiva tradition, he composed...
- Nadu, they are
called Adi
Saivas (among
other spellings Asishaivas, Adi-
Shaivas, etc.; from
Sanskrit Ādiśaiva, आदिशैव), or the Sivacharyas. They follow...
- The
Shaiva Upanishads are
minor Upanishads of Hinduism,
specific to
Shiva theology (Shaivism).
There are 14
Shaiva Upanishads in the
Muktika anthology...
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realities (dualism, dvaita), are the
foundational texts for
Shaiva Siddhanta.
Other Shaiva Agamas teach that
these are one
reality (monism, advaita), and...
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texts are in
Sanskrit and Tamil. The
three main
branches of
Agama texts are
Shaiva,
Vaishnava and Shakta. The
Agamic traditions are
sometimes called Tantrism...
- twelve-volume
collection Tirumurai, a
Shaiva narrative of epic and
Puranic heroes, as well as a
hagiographic account of
early Shaiva saints set in
devotional poetry...
- spellings; Sanskrit: परशिव, IAST: Paraśiva) is the
highest aspect of
Shiva in
Shaiva Siddhanta and in
Kashmir Shaivism.
Below him are the
primordial Shiva with...
