A Concise Encyclopaedia of Hinduism
author: Swami Harshananda
edition: 2008, Ramakrishna Math
pages: 2084
ISBN-13: 9788179070574
Topic: Hinduism
Encyclopaedia of Hinduism - Utpalacarya
This page describes Utpalacarya which is located on page 468 of the third volume in the book: A Concise Encyclopaedia of Hinduism by Swami Harshananda. This book, known as “a concise encyclopaedia of hinduism”, includes a vast amount of topics covering general aspects on Hinduism, but also contains important aspects regarding Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism This page contains an online preview of the full text and summarizes technical terms, as well as information if you want to buy this book.
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You can look up the meaning of the phrase “Utpalacarya” according to 3 books dealing with Hinduism. The following list shows a short preview of potential definitions.
Gitartha Samgraha (critical Study) [by Partha Sarathi Sil]
According to utpalacarya, “Shiva tattva is not a level in transcendental experience to be represented as ‘I consciousness or ‘self , but it is a metaphysical principle in which powers of knowledge and action are held in unity and that is capable of manifesting innumerable creations and annihilations of the entire mass of tattvas as mere reflections of itself”. In Kashmir monistic philosophy, the divine shakti of the supreme lord completely fused with Shiva....
Read full contents: 3. Tattvas (Principles) of Kashmir Shaivism
The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha [by E. B. Cowell]
Accordingly Utpalacarya says— "What more can they ask who are rich in the wealth of devotion? What else can they ask who are poor in this?" We have thus explained the motive expressed in the words the method of attaining all felicities, on the supposition that the compound term is a Tatpurusha genitively constructed. Let it be taken as a Bahuvrihi or relative compound....
Read full contents: Chapter VIII - The Pratyabhijna or Recognitive System
Kathasaritsagara (the Ocean of Story) [by Somadeva]
The last three, who must have been Somadeva’s contemporaries, were much influenced by the philosophic teaching of another Soma—Somananda, to give him his full name—who with his pupil Utpalacarya created the Advaita (Monistic) Shaiva Philosophy, known as the Trika, about two hundred years before Somadeva. Other important Kashmiri philosophic writers before Somadeva’s date were Utpala Vaishnava and Rama-kantha....
Read full contents: Foreword to volume 1
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