Book: Javanese Saivism: A Philosophical Study of Tattva Texts
Title : Javanese Saivism: A Philosophical Study of Tattva Texts
Author : I.B. Putu Suamba
Publisher : B.R. Publishing Corporation, New Delhi. E-mail: brpc@vsnl.com
Phone : 011-23259196, 23259648
Year of Publication : 2016
Size : xxi +401 pages
Cover : Hard, colors
Edition : First
ISBN : 9789350502747
Price : 2.250 Indian Rupees
About the Book
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 inquiry, viz. metaphysics, ethics, religion and epistemology. To state that Javanese form of Saivism is a unique sect of Saivism, it brings out its similarities and differences with four forms of Saivism, viz. Pasupata-Saivism, Kasmira-Saivism, Saiva-Siddhanta, and Vara-Saivism. Having such similarities and differences are not sufficient to state it as an independent and unique form of Saivism, unless and until it can present the reasons of such things exist. Finally, through modern modes of understanding, it brings out its contemporary relevance and significance to the present days.