Prof. Alexis Sanderson - Śāktism among the Śaivas (part 2)

[@sherrysyed]

Thank you for doing this!

[@Dev-pe2sz]

Astonishing details….kudos to you…complexities are alluring.

[@paulgerstmayr1882]

Thank you for another wonderful recording :)
Again, here are some rough markers, perhaps helpful:
0:00 intro
0:45 corrections and clarifications for previous lecture
07:40 Shaivism in Kashmir
07:47 term "Kashmir Shaivism" - misleading and reductionist
12:00 "exoteric" Kashmirian Saiddhantika tradition(s)
26:47 "mesoteric" Kashmirian non-Saiddhantika traditions of Svacchanda- and Amrteshvara-Bhairava
34:42 "esoteric" Shakta-Shaiva traditions proper, first: Kalikula, e.g. Jayadrathayamala
45:10 second: Krama
50:25 third: Trika
56:07 Abhinavagupta's exegetical project (Trika-Krama synthesis, Krama reading of Trika pantheon)
- gnostic
- ultimately anti-ritualistic
- possibility of sudden enlightenment
- figure of ascetic largely absent
- aestheticized, rationalized
- inclusivism, idea of successive initiations leading to Trika
1:03:35 "Shakta outreach"

[@saffiyehbrandhijaffer-mcne2800]

Thankyu for making this list.

[@sherrysyed]

Thank you, what a wonderful effort! I’m so grateful!

[@saffiyehbrandhijaffer-mcne2800]

I am curious to ask, is the Dr. Himself a practicing Shakta ( such as Sir John Woodruffe aka Arthur Avalon)?

[@vivekkatoor]

Not sure what the speaker actually wants to convey. Untouchables?? Really?

[@ghosthunter8664]

🙂💜