Nine lives: in search of the sacred in modern India
From the Dust Jacket: A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet-then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the violence by hand printing the best prayer flags in India. A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve to...
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| Формат: | Print |
| Язык: | Английский |
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| Опубликовано: |
London Berlin [u.a.]
Bloomsbury
2009
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| В: | Год: 2009 |
| Редактирование: | 1. publ. |
| Нормированные ключевые слова (последовательности): | B
Индия (мотив)
/ Индус
/ Религиозная практика
/ История (мотив) 2000-2100
B Индия (мотив) / Индуизм (мотив) / Религиозная жизнь / История (мотив) 2000-2100 B Индуизм (мотив) / Религиозная жизнь |
| Другие ключевые слова: | B
Рассказ о пережитом
B India Religious life and customs B India Religious life and customs B India Social conditions B India Social conditions |
| Итог: | From the Dust Jacket: A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet-then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the violence by hand printing the best prayer flags in India. A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve to death. A woman leaves her middle-class family in Calcutta, and her job in a jute factory, only to find unexpected love and fulfillment living as a Tantric skull feeder in a remote cremation ground. A prison warden from Kerala becomes, for two months of the year, a temple dancer and is worshipped as an incarnate deity; then, at the end of February each year, he returns to prison. An illiterate goat herd from Rajasthan keeps alive an ancient 4,000-line sacred epic that he, virtually alone, still knows by heart. A devadasi-or temple prostitute-initially resists her own initiation into sex work, yet pushes both her daughters into a trade she now regards as a sacred calling. Nine people, nine lives. Each one taking a different religious path, each one an unforgettable story. Exquisite and mesmerizing, and told with an almost biblical simplicity, William Dalrymple's first travel book in over a decade explores how traditional forms of religious life in South Asia have been transformed in the vortex of the region's rapid change. A distillation of twenty-five years of exploring India and writing about its religious traditions, Nine Lives is a modern Indian Canterbury Tales |
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| ISBN: | 1408800616 |