Pratyabhijñā

Bodhavilāsa

बोधविलासः

The Play of Awareness

Author: Kṣemarāja
Language: Sanskrit
Period: 11th century CE
Tradition: Pratyabhijñā
Versions: 1

A short yogaśāstra by Kṣemarāja (11th c.), disciple of Abhinavagupta. Obscure Kashmir Śaiva treatise on the play of awareness — Italian edition by Corrado Pensa (1961); no known full English translation.

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Kṣemarāja's Bodhavilāsa is a brief yogaśāstra on the play (vilāsa) of awareness (bodha), written in the generation after Abhinavagupta. It remained relatively obscure in modern scholarship until Corrado Pensa's Italian edition (Rivista di Studi Orientali 36, 1961). The GRETIL HTML transform encodes that Sanskrit text for digital study; no complete English translation is known.

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