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| | Trika Shaivism |
 | | According to legend, around 900 A.D., Lord Shiva gave the Shiva Sutra-s to Vasugupta on the underside of a huge rock on a hillside of the Himalayas in Kashmir, and that was the beginning of Trika Shaivism. |
 | | Other major teachers during that same period were Abhinavagupta, Kshemaraja, Utpaladeva, Bhaskara, Somananda, Kallata, and Krishnadasa. |
 | | He explained the teachings of Trika Shaivism in a magnificent 12-volume work called the Tantraloka, and applied the teachings to many different fields such as aesthetics, art theory, and language theory. |
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