Sri Chaitanya’s Life and Teachings

The Golden Avatara of Divine Love

Steven Rosen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

258 Seiten

2017
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781498558334 (ISBN)

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This book focuses on one of the greatest saint/avatāras of all time: Śrī Chaitanya Mahāprabhu. This charismatic religious leader popularized song and dance as a yogic science and conveyed teachings as relevant today as they were in his native Bengal some five hundred years ago. This is the story of how his message spread throughout the world.

Tucked away in ancient Sanskrit and Bengali texts is a secret teaching, a blissful devotional (bhakti) tradition that involves sacred congregational chanting (kirtana), mindfulness practices (japa, smara?am), and the deepening of one’s relationship with God (rasa). Brought to the world’s stage by Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486–1533), and fully documented by his immediate followers, the Six Goswamis of Vrindavan, these unprecedented teachings were passed down from master to student in Gau?iya Vaishnava lineages. The Golden Avatara of Love: Sri Chaitanya’s Life and Teachings, by contemporary scholar Steven J. Rosen, makes the profound truths of this confidential knowledge easily accessible for an English language audience. In his well-researched text, modern readers—spiritual practitioners, scholars, and seekers of knowledge alike—will encounter a treasure of hitherto unrevealed spiritual teachings, and be able to fathom sublime dimensions of Sri Chaitanya’s method. Using the ancient texts themselves and the findings of contemporary academics, Rosen succeeds in summarizing and establishing Sri Chaitanya’s life and doctrine for the modern world.

Steven J. Rosen is author of 31 books, the founding editor of the Journal of Vaishnava Studies, and associate editor of Back to Godhead magazine.

Introduction
1. The Gau?iya Tradition: From Veda to Radha
2. Sri Krishna: Enter the Dark Lord
3. Sri Gaura Tattva: From Black to Gold
4. The World of Bhakti
5. The Nectar of the Holy Name
6. Sik?a??akam:Eight Beautiful Prayers
7. Gau?iya Vedanta: Inconceivable Unity in Diversity
8. Sri Chaitanya and Other Traditions
9. Ramananda Raya: The Viceroy of Devotion
10. Raganuga-bhakti: Sri Chaitanya’s Special Gift
Afterword: Mahaprabhu Comes West

Erscheinungsdatum	16.02.2018
Reihe/Serie	Explorations in Indic Traditions: Theological, Ethical, and Philosophical
Vorwort	Jeffery D. Long
Zusatzinfo	1 b/w illustrations; 1 tables;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 238 mm
Gewicht	508 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
ISBN-13	9781498558334 / 9781498558334
Zustand	Neuware