John Nemec
University of Virginia (Professor of Indian Religions and South Asian Studies)
The scholar for Somānanda: first English translation and critical study of much of the Śivadṛṣṭi (Ubiquitous Śiva I–II); early-Pratyabhijñā arguments incl. against Dharmakīrti.
Bio. PhD UPenn (2005), MPhil Oxford. The Ubiquitous Śiva I (2011) and II (2021, OUP) translate and study Somānanda's Śivadṛṣṭi with its tantric interlocutors; a third volume is in preparation toward an intellectual and cultural history of Kashmir.
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Somananda — first English Śivadṛṣṭi (Ubiquitous Śiva I–II)
University of Virginia (Professor of Indian Religions and South Asian Studies) · status: active · dates: active since 2005 — PhD 2005; OUP vols 2011, 2021; Oxford podcast confirms vol III in preparation
The Ubiquitous Śiva: Somānanda's Śivadṛṣṭi and His Tantric Interlocutors (OUP 2011) 2011
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Used for: Somānanda metaphysics; Śivadṛṣṭi translation
The Ubiquitous Śiva, Vol. II (OUP 2021) 2021
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Used for: Śivadṛṣṭi continued; early-Pratyabhijñā arguments
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