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The Fading Light Of Advaita Acarya: Three Hagiographies (Aar Religions in Translation) - Softcover

Buch 5 von 6: AAR Religions in Translation

Manring, Rebecca J.

 
9780199736478: The Fading Light Of Advaita Acarya: Three Hagiographies (Aar Religions in Translation)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0199736472 ISBN 13: 9780199736478
Verlag: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2011

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Rebecca J. Manring offers an illuminating study and translation of three hagiographies of Advaita Acarya, a crucial figure in the early years of the devotional Vaisnavism which originated in Bengal in the fifteenth century. Advaita Acarya was about fifty years older than the movement's putative founder, Caitanya, and is believed to have caused Caitanya's advent by ceaselessly storming heaven, calling for the divine presence to come to earth. Advaita was a scholar and highly respected pillar of society, whose status lent respectability and credibility to the new movement. A significant body of hagio

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Rebecca J. Manring considers Kolkata her second home. She lives and gardens in Bloomington, Indiana, where she is Associate Professor of India Studies and Religious Studies at Indiana University.

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Verlag
Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0199736472
ISBN 13 
9780199736478
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
312
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