Hindu Monastery in South India (eBook)

Social, Religious, and Artistic Traditions

Nalini Rao (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
252 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-2238-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.9.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 19 Illustrations including: - 19 Black & White Illustrations.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
• Schlagworte: Asceticism • guru mummification • Gurus • Hindu iconography • Hindu icons • Hindu monastery • Hindu murti • Hindu relics • medieval gurus • medieval Hinduism • medieval india • medieval South India • medieval Vedanta • Sanatana Dharma • South India • South Indian Hinduism • Vaishnavism • Vedanta dualism • Vedanta gurus • Vedanta monastery
• ISBN-10: 1-7936-2238-8 / 1793622388
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7936-2238-9 / 9781793622389