Abhinavagupta | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 26/03/2019

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00:01:02 1 Life
00:03:20 2 Social background, family and disciples
00:03:32 2.1 "Magical" birth
00:04:20 2.2 Parents
00:05:10 2.3 Family
00:07:15 2.4 Ancestors
00:07:55 3 Masters
00:10:25 4 Lifestyle
00:12:37 5 Works
00:13:05 5.1 Religious works
00:13:14 5.1.1 Tantraloka
00:14:38 5.1.2 Tantrasara
00:16:09 5.2 Devotional hymns
00:17:28 5.3 Philosophical works
00:18:46 5.4 Poetical and dramatic works



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Abhinavagupta (c. 950 – 1016 AD) was a philosopher, mystic and aesthetician from Kashmir.  He was also considered an influential musician, poet, dramatist, exegete, theologian, and logician – a polymathic personality who exercised strong influences on Indian culture.He was born in Kashmir in a family of scholars and mystics and studied all the schools of philosophy and art of his time under the guidance of as many as fifteen (or more) teachers and gurus. In his long life he completed over 35 works, the largest and most famous of which is Tantrāloka, an encyclopedic treatise on all the philosophical and practical aspects of Kaula and Trika (known today as Kashmir Shaivism). Another one of his very important contributions was in the field of philosophy of aesthetics with his famous Abhinavabhāratī commentary of Nāṭyaśāstra of Bharata Muni.