Bettina Sharada Bäumer is a scholar of non-dualist Kashmir Śaivism and a disciple of its great master Swami Lakshman Joo of Kashmir (1907-1991). She has translated and commented upon a number of texts from the tradition and has been teaching them in her retreat-seminars for the last 20 years. She was Professor of Religious Studies at Vienna University and elsewhere. She has authored and edited about 22 books related to Indian philosophy and spirituality.