Working papers
Essays
the owner’s recognition essays — theses argued from the translations, displayed as written
Comparative — IPVV against the traditions
THE TWO ABHINAVAGUPTAS: A COMPARATIVE SYNTHESIS OF THE IPVV AND THE TANTRĀLOKA — A magnum-opus essay. 2026-08-11. Abhinavagupta wrote two masterworks that face the same philosophical [reviewed]THE PULSE AND THE RECOGNITION: A COMPARATIVE SYNTHESIS OF THE SPANDAKĀRIKĀ AND THE IPVV — A magnum-opus essay. 2026-08-11. The Spandakārikā (the "Stanzas on Vibration") is the foundational [reviewed]THE SEQUENCE AND THE RECOGNITION: A COMPARATIVE SYNTHESIS OF THE KRAMA SCHOOL AND THE IPVV — A magnum-opus essay. 2026-08-11. The Krama school of Kashmiri Śaivism — the "sequence" — makes time [reviewed]THE ARGUED LORD AND THE UNEXPLAINABLE IGNORANCE: THE IPVV AGAINST ADVAITA VEDĀNTA — A magnum-opus essay. 2026-08-11. Advaita Vedānta and the Pratyabhijñā are the two great nondualisms [reviewed]THE CO-OPTING OF THE BUDDHIST: THE IPVV AGAINST VIJÑĀNAVĀDA AND DHARMAKĪRTI — A magnum-opus essay. 2026-08-11. The Pratyabhijñā and the Buddhist idealists (the Vijñānavādins, and [reviewed]THE FELT AND THE AESTHETIC: CAMATKĀRA AS THE REGISTER OF RECOGNITION — A magnum-opus essay. 2026-08-11. Abhinavagupta wrote two great works on the felt: the IPVV, where the [reviewed]THE AWARENESS AND THE RECOGNITION: THE IPVV AND THE ŚIVASŪTRA AND VIJÑĀNABHAIRAVA — A magnum-opus essay. 2026-08-11. The Śivasūtra and the Vijñānabhairava are the two great [reviewed]
Core proofs — the recognition thesis
THE ULTIMATE PROOF OF RECOGNITION — 2026-08-11. The question "does recognition actually work?" — can it be *proved* — has haunted the [reviewed]WHY RECOGNITION IS A FELT RE-COGNITION — 2026-08-11. The thesis is that recognition is a *felt re-cognition*. Why "felt"? Why "re-"cognition? [reviewed]THE NON-CONSTRUCTED "I": THE ARGUMENT AGAINST THE SELF-MODEL — 2026-08-11. The contemporary philosophy of mind offers a powerful account of the self: the "I" is a [reviewed]THE FELT-TO-GROUND ARGUMENT — 2026-08-11. The deepest crux of the recognition-thesis is the felt→ground step: does the felt of one [reviewed]RECOGNITION AND THE FORMAL PROOFS — 2026-08-11. The project has produced a body of formal work on recognition: AM0 (the σ-flip [reviewed]RECOGNITION AND NISARGADATTA: THE FELT SELF AND THE DIRECT POINTING — 2026-08-11. Recognition sounds strikingly similar to Nisargadatta Maharaj — the twentieth-century [reviewed]THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF ACTION: ABHINAVA'S METAPHYSICS OF AGENCY — 2026-08-11. The recognition-thesis is not only an epistemology (knowledge is the felt self-awareness) [reviewed]THE EXCLUSION-INDIVIDUATION: HOW THE APOHANA CARVES SUBJECT AND WORLD — 2026-08-11. Among the three powers — knowledge, memory, exclusion — the exclusion (apohana) is the [reviewed]THE SOTERIOLOGY OF RECOGNITION: THE JĪVANMUKTA AND THE TRANSMISSION — 2026-08-11. The recognition-thesis is not only epistemology and metaphysics; it is a soteriology. The [reviewed]
Extensions
ABHINAVA'S ORIGINAL EXTENSIONS: WHAT THE IPVV ADDS BEYOND THE IPK — 2026-08-11. A companion to the Abhinava-vs-Utpaladeva essay. Where that essay isolated the [working]ABHINAVAGUPTA VS UTPALADEVA: THE EXPANSION OF THE ROOT — 2026-08-11. The IPK (Utpaladeva) states the recognition-thesis in seed; the IPVV (Abhinavagupta) [working]Recognition as the Felt Re-Cognition of the Self — This is the authoritative recognition source. It states the Pratyabhijñā thesis — recognition [working]THE WORLD AND THE PATH: ABHINAVA'S ONTOLOGY AND SOTERIOLOGY — 2026-08-11. The recognition-thesis is an epistemology (knowledge is the felt self-awareness) and a [working]THE OTHER AND THE SELF: INTERSUBJECTIVITY IN THE IPVV — 2026-08-11. If all is the self, how is the other real? This is the hardest problem of the recognition- [working]
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