Vrndavana

Author : Barbara A. Holdrege
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131766910X
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bhakti and Embodiment written by Barbara A. Holdrege and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-14 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical shift from Vedic traditions to post-Vedic bhakti (devotional) traditions is accompanied by a shift from abstract, translocal notions of divinity to particularized, localized notions of divinity and a corresponding shift from aniconic to iconic traditions and from temporary sacrificial arenas to established temple sites. In Bhakti and Embodiment Barbara Holdrege argues that the various transformations that characterize this historical shift are a direct consequence of newly emerging discourses of the body in bhakti traditions in which constructions of divine embodiment proliferate, celebrating the notion that a deity, while remaining translocal, can appear in manifold corporeal forms in different times and different localities on different planes of existence. Holdrege suggests that an exploration of the connections between bhakti and embodiment is critical not only to illuminating the distinctive transformations that characterize the emergence of bhakti traditions but also to understanding the myriad forms that bhakti has historically assumed up to the present time. This study is concerned more specifically with the multileveled models of embodiment and systems of bodily practices through which divine bodies and devotional bodies are fashioned in Krsna bhakti traditions and focuses in particular on two case studies: the Bhagavata Purana, the consummate textual monument to Vaisnava bhakti, which expresses a distinctive form of passionate and ecstatic bhakti that is distinguished by its embodied nature; and the Gaudiya Vaisnava tradition, an important bhakti tradition inspired by the Bengali leader Caitanya in the sixteenth century, which articulates a robust discourse of embodiment pertaining to the divine bodies of Krsna and the devotional bodies of Krsna bhaktas that is grounded in the canonical authority of the Bhagavata Purana.

Author : Karṇapūra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ananda Vrndavana Campu written by Karṇapūra and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical Sanskrit poetry on Krishna (Hindu deity).

Author : Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja
Publisher : BHAKTI Trust Inc
ISBN 13 : 8186737014
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book स्रीभक्तिरसामृतसिन्धु-बिन्दु written by Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Maharaja and published by BHAKTI Trust Inc. This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rembert Lutjeharms
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192561928
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Vaisnava Poet in Early Modern Bengal written by Rembert Lutjeharms and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the practice of poetry in the devotional Vaiṣṇava tradition inspired by Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya (1486-1533), through a detailed study of the Sanskrit poetic works of Kavikarṇapūra, one of the most significant sixteenth-century Caitanya Vaiṣṇava poets and theologians. It places his ideas in the context both of Sanskrit literary theory (by exploring his use of earlier works of Sanskrit criticism) and of Vaiṣṇava theology (by tracing the origins of his theological ideas to earlier Vaiṣṇava teachers, especially his guru Śrīnātha). Both Kavikarṇapūra's poetics as well as the style of his poetry is in many ways at odds with those of his time, particularly with respect to the place of phonetic ornamentation and rasa. Like later early modern theorists, Kavikarṇapūra reaches back to the earliest Sanskrit poeticians whom he attempts to harmonise with the theories current in his time, to develop a new poetics that values both literary ornamentation and the suggestion of emotion through rasa. This book argues that the reasons of and purposes for Kavikarṇapūra's literary innovations are firmly rooted in his unique Vaiṣṇava theology, and exemplifies this through a careful reading of select passages from the Ānanda-vṛndāvana, his poetic retelling of Kṛṣṇa's play in Vṛndāvana.

Author : Satsvarūpa Dāsa Gosvāmī
Publisher : Satsvarupa dasa Goswami
ISBN 13 : 0911233660
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Copper to Touchstone written by Satsvarūpa Dāsa Gosvāmī and published by Satsvarupa dasa Goswami. This book was released on 1996 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lālana Śāha
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190680229
Total Pages : 649 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City of Mirrors written by Lālana Śāha and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carol Salomon dedicated over thirty years of her life to researching, translating, and annotating this compilation of songs by the Bengali poet and mystical philosopher Lalan Sai (popularly transliterated as Lalon) who lived in the village of Cheuriya in Bengal in the latter half of the nineteenth century. One major objective of his lyrical riddles was to challenge the restrictions of cultural, political, and sexual identity, and his songs accordingly express a longing to understand humanity, its duties, and its ultimate destiny. His songs also contain thinly veiled references to esoteric yogic practices (sadhana), including body-centered Hathayogic techniques that are related to those found in Buddhist, Kaula, Natha, and Sufi medieval tantric literature. Dr. Salomon's translation of the work is the first dedicated English translation of Lalan's songs to closely follow the Bangla text, with all of its dialectical variations, and is here produced alongside the original text. Although her untimely death left her work unpublished, the editors have worked diligently to reconstruct her translations from her surviving printed and handwritten manuscripts. The result is a finished product that can finally share her groundbreaking scholarship on Baul traditions with the world.

Author : Satsvarūpa Dāsa Gosvāmī
Publisher : Satsvarupa dasa Goswami
ISBN 13 : 0911233296
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Every Day, Just Write written by Satsvarūpa Dāsa Gosvāmī and published by Satsvarupa dasa Goswami. This book was released on 1998 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Satsvarūpa Dāsa Gosvāmī
Publisher : Satsvarupa dasa Goswami
ISBN 13 : 0911233911
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shack Notes written by Satsvarūpa Dāsa Gosvāmī and published by Satsvarupa dasa Goswami. This book was released on 1992 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Satsvarūpa Dāsa Gosvāmī
Publisher : Satsvarupa dasa Goswami
ISBN 13 : 0911233474
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nimāi's Detour written by Satsvarūpa Dāsa Gosvāmī and published by Satsvarupa dasa Goswami. This book was released on 1989 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ravi M. Gupta
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317170164
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caitanya Vaisnava Philosophy written by Ravi M. Gupta and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sixteenth century, the saint and scholar Sri Caitanya set in motion a wave of devotion to Krishna that began in eastern India and has now found its way around the world. Caitanya taught that the highest aim of life is to develop selfless love for God Krishna, the blue-hued cowherd boy who spoke the Bhagavad Gita. Although only a handful of poetry is attributed to Caitanya, his devotional theology was expounded and systematized by his followers in a vast array of poetical, philosophical, and ritual literature. This book provides a thematic study of Caitanya Vaishnava philosophy, introducing key thinkers and ideas in the early tradition, using Sanskrit and Bengali sources that have seldom been studied in English. The book addresses major areas of the tradition, including epistemology, ontology, aesthetics, ethics, and history, and every chapter includes relevant readings from primary sources.