The Stanzas on Vibration: The Spa and Andakarika with Four Commentaries

Download or read book The Stanzas on Vibration: The Spa and Andakarika with Four Commentaries written by Mark S.G. Dyczkowski and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanda is the vibratory dynamism of the absolute consciousness.In this book, the author focuses on the school of KashmirShaivism that presents this doctrine as its cardinal principleand whose literature consists in a large part of the works translatedhere. In his introduction and in his exposition of the fourcommentaries, the author shows both how the Spanda traditioncontributes to the other schools of Kashmir Shaivism and howit is different from them. He presents for the first time a detailedtreatment of this tradition and analysis of its development.