The Hindu Monastery in South India

Social, Religious, and Artistic Traditions

Nalini Rao (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

252 Seiten

2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781793622396 (ISBN)

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This study analyzes the role of asceticism, icons, and the guru in South India. Tracing the development of Hindu monastic orders, the author analyzes the growth of these institutions from educational establishments to centers of traditional socio-religious authority, centering her argument on the phenomenon of guru whole-body relics.

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.

Nalini Rao is professor of world art at Soka University of America.

Introduction: Hindu Monasteries in a Socio-religious Context
Chapter Two: Beginnings and Growth of Saiva Monasteries
Chapter Three: Vedanta Mathas: Development, Identity, and Patronage
Chapter Four: The Icon and Relic of the Guru
Chapter Five: Multivalent Symbolism of the Vrndavana
Chapter Six: Conclusions

Erscheinungsdatum	04.05.2022
Zusatzinfo	19 b/w photos; 1 tables;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 229 mm
Gewicht	313 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
ISBN-13	9781793622396 / 9781793622396
Zustand	Neuware