Javanese saivism a philosophical study of tattva texts
Suamba, Ida Bagus Putu
Javanese saivism a philosophical study of tattva texts
/ Ida Bagus Putu Suamba
- New Delhi : B.R. Publishing Corporation c2016
- xxi, 403 p. : 23 cm
First Published 2016
Includes index
This book attempts to present, perhaps for the first time, a fairly comprehensive analysis of the philosophical principles of Javanese-Saivism as contain in Sanskrit-Old Javanese Tutur /Tattva texts. It seeks to bring out major aspects of philosophical enquiry, viz. metaphysics, ethics, religion, and epistemology, and tries to see their interrelation. To state that Javanese form of Saivism is a unique and independent sect of Saivism, it brings out its similarities and differences with four known forms of Saivism, viz.