An overview of the histories of Kashmir and Uḍḍiyāna, and their relations with Tibet in the late 8th century.
An overview of the history of Kashmir in and around the late 8th century, attentive to the political and religious landscape of the day and in particular to understanding the links between Tibet and Kashmir. It features an outline of the forms of Śaivism present in Kashmir at that time, set in relation to the Vaiṣṇava and Buddhist traditions active there in the same period. Doing so will serve to establish evidence for the contemporaneous imagination within Śaivism of Uḍḍiyāna and tantric practices related to the same, inasmuch as they can be recovered from this period of history. It is hoped this will serve better to chart the influences of Kashmiri religious traditions on those of Tibet around the time of the life of Padmasambhava.
