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'''Rajanaka Kṣemarāja''' ('''क्षेमराज''') (late 10th to early 11th century) was a philosopher and brilliant disciple of [[Abhinavagupta]],<ref name=":0">{{cite book |title=Heidegger, Phenomenology and Indian Thought |first=Peter |last=Wilberg |publisher=New Gnosis Publications |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-904519-08-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rWE0HcgTmGAC |access-date=2011-07-17}}</ref> who was a peerless master of [[tantra]], [[yoga]], [[poetics]], and [[dramaturgy]].<ref name=":1" /> Not much is known of Kṣemarāja's life or parentage. His chief disciple was a sage known as Yogāraja.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Kashmir Shaivism|last=Lakshmanjoo|publisher=Lakshmanjoo Academy|year=2015|isbn=978-0-9966365-2-0}}</ref> The Pratyabhijnahridayam, a work in which Kṣemarāja brings the main tenets of the [[Pratyabhijna|Pratyabhijna system]] into a succinct set of sutras for those who may not have studied in-depth metaphysics, occupies the same place in [[Kashmir Shaivism|Kashmir Shaivite]] or [[Trika]] literature as Vedanta Sara does in [[Vedanta]]. Other works of his: Spandasandoha, Spandanirnaya, Svacchandodyota, Netrodyota, [[Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra|Vijnanabhairavodyota]], [[Shiva Sutras of Vasugupta|Shivasutravimarsini]], Stavacintamanitika, Parapraveshika, Tattvasandoha.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=Pratyabhijnahridayam|last=Kshemaraja, w/ trans. and commentary by Jai Deva Singh|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publishers|year=1963|isbn=8120803221|location=Bungalow Road, Delhi 110 007}}</ref><blockquote>''"Man bound in all the phases of waking, dream and dreamless sleep by the body,'' ''[[prana]], pleasure, etc. does not recognize his own consciousness which is of the'' ''nature of the great power and full of perfect bliss." -- Kṣemarāja''<ref>{{Cite book|title=Pratyabhijnahridayam|last=Kshemaraja|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publishers|year=1963|isbn=81-208-0322-1|pages=114}}</ref></blockquote><br />
== See also ==<br />
* [[Abhinavagupta]]<br />
* [[Vasugupta]]<br />
* [[Somananda]]<br />
* [[Utpaladeva|Utpalacarya]]<br />
* [[Kundalini]]<br />
* [[Yoga]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
*{{cite journal |journal=Journal of Indian Philosophy |volume=15 |issue=4 |pages=349–362 |doi=10.1007/BF00178813 |title=The legitimacy of the term "philosophy" in an Asian context |first=Dushan |last=Pajin |year=1987 }}<!--|accessdate=2011-07-17--> {{subscription required}}<br />
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