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{{Short description|Indian philosopher and writer (c.950–1016)}}
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{{Infobox Hindu leader
| name               = Abhinavagupta
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| birth_date         = c. 950 [[Common Era|CE]]
| birth_place        = [[Kashmir]]
| birth_name         = Shankara
| death_date         = c. 1016 [[Common Era|CE]]
| death_place        = [[Mangam]], [[Kashmir]]
| influences         = 
| influenced         = [[Śambhunātha]], [[Lakṣmaṇagupta]], [[Bhūtirāja]]
| religion           = [[Hinduism]]
| school_tradition   = [[Kashmir Shaivism]]
| known_for          = [[Doctrine of Vibration]] (''spanda'')
| works              = Tantrāloka etc
| image_upright      = https://risingkashmir.blr1.digitaloceanspaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/19013701/1_pwskSBSzXWsyuwafpx3KNg.jpg
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'''Abhinavagupta''' ([[Devanagari|Devanāgarī]] अभिनवगुप्तः; c. 950 – 1016 [[Common Era|CE]]<ref>Triadic Heart of Shiva, Paul E. Muller-Ortega, page 12</ref><ref name="Introduction">{{cite book|author=Rastogi|first=Navjivan|title=Introduction to the Tantraloka: A Study in Structure|publisher=[[Motilal Banarsidass]]|year=1987|isbn=9788120801806|location=Delhi}}</ref>{{rp|27}}) was a [[Indian philosophy|philosopher]], [[Mysticism|mystic]] and [[Aesthetics|aesthetician]] from [[Kashmir]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Abhinavagupta – the Philosopher |url=http://www.koausa.org/Glimpses/abhinava.html |access-date=30 May 2012 |archive-date=20 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170720194646/http://www.koausa.org/Glimpses/abhinava.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was also considered an influential [[Music of India|musician]], [[Indian poetry|poet]], [[Theatre in India|dramatist]], [[exegesis|exegete]], [[Theology|theologian]], and [[Indian logic|logician]]<ref name="Re-accessing Abhinavagupta page 4">Re-accessing Abhinavagupta, Navjivan Rastogi, page 4</ref><ref>Key to the Vedas, Nathalia Mikhailova, page 169</ref> – a [[polymath]]ic personality who exercised strong influences on [[Indian culture]].<ref>The Pratyabhijñā Philosophy, Ganesh Vasudeo Tagare, page 12</ref><ref>Companion to Tantra, S.C. Banerji, page 89</ref>

Abhinavagupta was born in a [[Kanyakubja Brahmin|Kānyakubja Brāhmin]] family of scholars and mystics whose ancestors immigrated from [[Kannauj]] on invitation by the great king of Kashmir, [[Lalitaditya Muktapida]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7F6Sxu0-50QC |title=Proceedings and Transactions of the ... All-India Oriental Conference |page=48|date=1964 |publisher=Bihar and Orissa Research Society|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XUXFJnx7STUC|title=Journal asiatique, Volumes 244-245|page=238|date=1956 |publisher=Société asiatique}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book| author= D.D. Kosambi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jSduAAAAMAAJ |title=Indian Society Historical Probings, in, Memory of D. D. Kosambi|page=185|date=1974 |publisher=People's Publishing House}}</ref>  He studied all the schools of philosophy and art of his time under the guidance of as many as fifteen (or more) teachers and [[guru]]s.<ref name="Introduction" />{{rp|35}} In his long life he completed over 35 works, the largest and most famous of which is ''[[Tantraloka|Tantrāloka]]'', an encyclopedic treatise on all the philosophical and practical aspects of [[Kaula (Hinduism)|Kaula]] and [[Trika]] (known today as [[Kashmir Shaivism]]). Another one of his very important contributions was in the field of philosophy of aesthetics with his famous ''[[Abhinavabharati|Abhinavabhāratī]]'' commentary of ''[[Natya Shastra|Nāṭyaśāstra]]'' of [[Bharata Muni]].<ref name="ReferenceA">Luce dei Tantra, Tantrāloka, Abhinavagupta, Raniero Gnoli, page LXXVII</ref>