The Building of Vṛndāvana

Architecture, Theology, and Practice in an Early Modern Pilgrimage Town

Kiyokazu Okita, Rembert Lutjeharms (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-68047-0 (ISBN)

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Examining Vṛndāvana’s history, architecture, art, ritual, theology, and literature in the early modern period, this book explores how these various disciplines were used to create the town as the most prominent place of pilgrimage for devotees of Kṛṣṇa.

The small town of Vṛndāvana is today one of the most vibrant places of pilgrimage in northern India. Throngs of pilgrims travel there each year to honour the sacred land of Kṛṣṇa’s youth and to visit many of its temples.

The Building of Vṛndāvana explores the complex history of this town’s early modern origins. Bringing together scholars from various disciplines to examine history, architecture, art, ritual, theology, and literature in this pivotal period, the book examines how these various disciplines were used to create, develop, and map Vṛndāvana as the most prominent place of pilgrimage for devotees of Kṛṣṇa.

Contributors are: Guy L. Beck, Måns Broo, David Buchta, John Stratton Hawley, Barbara A. Holdrege, Rembert Lutjeharms, Cynthia D. Packert, and Heidi Pauwels.

Kiyokazu Okita, D.Phil. (2011), University of Oxford, is Associate Professor of Hindu Studies at Faculty of Liberal Arts / Graduate Program in Global Studies, Sophia University. He is the author of Hindu Theology in Early Modern South Asia (OUP, 2014). Rembert Lutjeharms, D.Phil. (2010), University of Oxford, is a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and Research Lecturer in Hindu Studies at the Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford. He is the author of A Vaiṣṇava Poet in Early Modern Bengal (OUP, 2018).

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Rembert Lutjeharms and Kiyokazu Okita

Part 1: Builders

1 A Sixteenth-Century Testimony on Vṛndāvana’s First-Generation Pioneers

Heidi Pauwels

2 The Hari-bhakti-vilāsa as a Specimen of Early Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism in Vṛndāvana

Måns Broo

Part 2: Building

3 The Gauḍīya Reimagining of Vraja as a Bimodal Domain

Pilgrimage Place and Transcendent Space

Barbara A. Holdrege

4 Building Vṛndāvana as a Locus of Rasa

The Stotras of Rūpa Gosvāmī

David Buchta

5 Building the Spiritual Vṛndāvana

Music and the Rāsa Dance at the Centre of Kṛṣṇa Devotion

Guy L. Beck

Part 3: Buildings

6 A Temple of Stone and a Temple of Love

Govindadeva in the Religious Imagination of Early Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavas

Rembert Lutjeharms

7 Kings of the Mountains

Govardhana-līlā and Kachavāhā Patronage at the Govindadeva Temple in Vṛndāvana

Cynthia Packert

8 The Ideal Real Vṛndāvana of Jayasiṃha’s Dining Room

John Stratton Hawley

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Erscheinungsdatum	28.12.2023
Reihe/Serie	Brill's Indological Library ; 57
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	610 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	90-04-68047-0 / 9004680470
ISBN-13	978-90-04-68047-0 / 9789004680470
Zustand	Neuware