Edité par Oxford University Press Inc Mai 2002, 2002
ISBN 10 : 0195127358 ISBN 13 : 9780195127355
Langue: anglais
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
EUR 139,88
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Ajouter au panierBuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - This is the first full-length study of the devotional poetry and poetics of the fourteenth-century poet-philosopher Vedantadesika, one of the most outstanding and influential figures in the Hindu tradition of Sri-Vaishnavism (the cult of Lord Vishnu). Despite their intrinsic beauty and theological importance, the poetry and philosophy of Vedantadesika have received very little scholarly attention. But for the millions who belong to the Vaishnava tradition, those poems are not just classical literature; they are committed to memory, recited, sung, and enacted in ritual both in India and throughout the Hindu diaspora. Steven Hopkins here offers a comparative study of the Sanskrit, Prakit, and Tamil poems composed by Vedantadesika in praise of important Vaishnava shrines and their icons--poems that are considered to be the apogee of South Indian devotional literature.