The Hindu Monastery in South India

Social, Religious, and Artistic Traditions

Nalini Rao (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2020
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-2237-2 (ISBN)

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This study analyzes the role of asceticism, icons, and the guru in South India. Tracing the development of Hindu monastic orders, the author analyzes the growth of these institutions from educational establishments to centers of traditional socio-religious authority, centering her argument on the phenomenon of guru whole-body relics.

Drawing on both textual and archaeological evidence, this study offers an integrated approach to scholarly debates on monasteries and guru relics in South India between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries. This study analyzes the role of the guru in the development of Hindu monastic orders, from centers of education to institutions of traditional authority. Focusing on the complex socio-religious context of the whole-body icon, the author analyzes the relic as a nexus of contradictions surrounding sacredness and death.

Nalini Rao is professor of world art at Soka University of America.

Introduction: Hindu Monasteries in a Socio-religious Context

Chapter Two: Beginnings and Growth of Saiva Monasteries

Chapter Three: Vedānta Mathas: Development, Identity, and Patronage

Chapter Four: The Icon and Relic of the Guru

Chapter Five: Multivalent Symbolism of the Vrndavana

Chapter Six: Conclusions

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 232 mm
Gewicht	535 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
ISBN-10	1-7936-2237-X / 179362237X
ISBN-13	978-1-7936-2237-2 / 9781793622372
Zustand	Neuware