(b. 1014, Kashmir), eleventh-century Indian philosopher, ascetic, and aesthetician and an outstanding representative of the pratyabhijna (recognition) school of Kashmiri Shaivite monism. This school conceived of the god Shiva, the individual soul, and the universe as essentially one; pratyabhijna refers to the way of realizing this identity.
Abhinavagupta was a great writer on -philosophy and aesthetics. Among his well-known philosophic works are Ishvara-pratyabhijna-vimarshini and the more detailed Ishvara-pratyabhijna-vivrti-vimarshini , both commentaries on Ishvara-pratyabhijna (Recognition of God), by Utpala, an earlier philosopher of the pratyabhijna school.
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