Although the Kaula literature of the Newars did not give rise to a systematic philosophical school like that of their Kashmiri counterparts, I will argue in this article that philosophical thinking can be detected in Newar ritual texts. I do this by translating and analysing the unpublished Kālīsūtra, an important hymn found in Newar Uttarāmnāya liturgies whose transmission and composition will also be touched upon. This hymn indicates that the cult of Kālī in Nepal had a distinct ontological stance tending towards a non-dualism which was world-affirming while also seeing consciousness as the ultimate reality. Several key conceptual strands of the Sūtra such as the relationship between transcendence and immanence, reality and cognition and the divine and the body will be elaborated upon. In the process, I will show that the Kālīsūtra’s philosophy brings into sharper focus doctrines already present in the canonical Krama and thus displays many affinities with the Pratyabhijñā, a school which shares its cultic backdrop.

尽管尼瓦尔人的考拉文献并没有像克什米尔同行那样产生系统的哲学流派，但我将在本文中论证，在尼瓦尔人的仪式文本中可以发现哲学思维。我通过翻译和分析未出版的《Kālīsūtra》来做到这一点，这是在 Newar Uttaramnāya 礼拜仪式中发现的一首重要赞美诗，其传播和创作也将被提及​​。这首赞美诗表明，尼泊尔的卡利崇拜具有独特的本体论立场，倾向于非二元论，即肯定世界，同时也将意识视为最终现实。将详细阐述《佛经》的几个关键概念，例如超越与内在、现实与认知、神与身体之间的关系。在此过程中，我将表明，卡利经的哲学将经典克拉玛中已经存在的教义带入更清晰的焦点，从而显示出与具有共同崇拜背景的波提亚比尼亚学派的许多相似之处。