estimate by Johnson and Grim, Shaivism is the second-largest Hindu sect, constituting about 252 million or 26.6% of Hindus. Shaivism developed as an amalgam...

The Kashmir Shaivism tradition, also called Trika Shaivism, is a non-dualist branch of Shaiva-Shakta Tantra Hinduism that originated in Kashmir after 850...

where everything emerges". The nondualistic monism school of Shaivism, Kashmir Shaivism, describes the tattvas as Paramshiva manifests himself by a process...

Pashupata Shaivism (Pāśupata, Sanskrit: पाशुपत) is one of the oldest major Shaivite Hindu schools. The mainstream which follows Vedic Pāśupata penance...

theologies. Shaivism is one of the four major sects of Hinduism, the others being Vaishnavism, Shaktism and the Smarta Tradition. Followers of Shaivism, called...

Pashupata Shaivism, developed by Nakulisa Shaiva Siddhanta, the theistic Sankhya school Pratyabhijña, the recognitive school of Kashmir Shaivism, Trika Raseśvara...

Shivastotravali 1982 – Lectures on practice and discipline in Kashmir Shaivism 1985 – Kashmir Shaivism: The Secret Supreme, edited by John Hughes (the essence of...

one with Shiva within. The major schools of Shaivism include: Aghori Kalamukha Kapalika Kashmir Shaivism, adheres to the teachings of Vasugupta and his...

is preceded by the devotional syllable "Om". In Siddha Shaivism and Shaiva Siddhanta Shaivism traditions, Namah Shivaya is considered as Pancha Bodha...

with cremation-ground or charnel ground sceticism, found in Shaktism and Shaivism. Kaula preserves some of the distinctive features of the Kāpālika tradition...

Hindus and Buddhists. In Shaivism, he is a powerful manifestation, or avatar, of Shiva. In the tradition of Kashmir Shaivism, Bhairava represents the...

Shaiva Siddhanta (IAST: Śaiva-siddhānta) is a form of Shaivism popular in a pristine form in South India and Sri Lanka and in a Tantrayana syncretised...

Vedic faith traditions, along with different sectarian religions, notably Shaivism, Vaishnavism, and Shaktism that were within the orthodox fold yet still...

Kashmir Shaivism is divided under three categories: Agama shastra, Spanda shastra, and Pratyabhijna shastra. In addition to these agamas, Kashmir Shaivism further...

Parashiva is beyond all of the 36 tattvas mentioned in Shaivism philosophy. Kashmiri Shaivism describes how all of reality, with all of its diversity...

state of Andhra Pradesh. It is significant to the Hindu sects of both Shaivism and Shaktism as this temple is referred to as one of the twelve Jyotirlingas...

portrays him as the one who reconciled the various sects (Vaishnavism, Shaivism, and Saktism) with the introduction of the Pañcāyatana form of worship...

Kashmir Shaivism which originated in the ninth century CE. The term Trika was used by Abhinavagupta to represent the whole of Kashmir Shaivism, or to designate...

convert to Shaivism after having embraced the Kāpālika's faith in Shiva Bhairava as the Supreme God and his wife Parvati. Aghori Kashmir Shaivism Kaula Mahasiddha...

Abhinavagupta, who was the epitome of the Kashmiri Shaivism. Abhinavagupta took teachings from all the schools of Shaivism and was said to reach spiritual liberation...

Pandyan king Arikesari Parankusa Maravarman. He converted from Jainism to Shaivism, converted under the influence of Sambandar. According to a Shaivite legend...

other schools such as Raseswera, Paninya, Pratyabhijna, Pasupata Shaivism, Shaivism etc. Indian thought has been concerned with various philosophical...

denomination. However, scholarly studies notify four major denominations: Shaivism, Shaktism, Smartism, and Vaishnavism. The six Āstika schools of Hindu philosophy...

In Hinduism, kundalini (Sanskrit: कुण्डलिनी, romanized: kuṇḍalinī, lit. 'coiled snake', pronunciation) is a form of divine feminine energy (or Shakti)...

Tulasi (Sanskrit: तुलसी, romanized: Tulasī), Tulsi or Vrinda (holy basil) is a sacred plant in Hindu tradition. Hindus regard it as an earthly manifestation...

texts of the Purana genre of Sanskrit texts in Hinduism, and part of the Shaivism literature corpus. It primarily revolves around the Hindu god Shiva and...

sect derived from the Kāpālika tradition, a Tantric, non-Puranic form of Shaivism which originated in Medieval India between the 4th and 8th century CE....

ability to take any shape or form one may even whimsically desire. In Shaivism, siddhis are defined as "Extraordinary powers of the soul, developed through...

festival is believed to have originated in 5th century BCE. In Kashmir Shaivism, the festival is called Har-ratri or phonetically simpler Haerath or Herath...

Kashmir Shaivism, Swami Lakshman Joo, gave a condensed version of the key philosophical chapters of Tantrāloka in his book, Kashmir Shaivism – The Secret...