Noted for her "unmatched religious patronage," this "Queen Mother of the Cola house" was "royal" in the sense that through her donations she sought "religious legitimation and prestige for her and her kin," but she was also "local" in the sense that she made an "outstanding contribution to the promotion of Tamil
Saivism" through her "unprecedented patronage of local Bhakti sites" (pp.
The Kashmir
saivism along with the role of Abhinavagupta is central to understanding the role of Kashmir in the Indian cultural epistemology.
Universal
Saivism: The Appeasement of All Gods and Powers in the Santyadhyaya of the Sivadharmasastra
Part III takes a close look at Bauddha-Saiva dynamics, a relationship between practitioners of Tantric forms of Buddhism and
Saivism that was marked by porous textual and ritual boundaries, but at the same time by intense rivalries.
(10) Alexis Sanderson, "Khmer
Saivism", paper presented at soas seminar, December 2, 2014.
Aspects of Kashmir
Saivism. Boulder: Utpal Publications, Santarasa Books, 1997.
Examples include many forms of
Saivism (Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedea.org/wiki/Theeism).
The next two authors, Kerry Skora and David Lawrence, share in common with Timalsina an interest in and focus on Hindu Tantra with a particular focus on the so-called Kasmiri
Saivism of the 11th-century guru and exegete, Abhinavagupta (ca.