The Bhagavata Purana: Sacred Text and Living Tradition

A vibrant example of living literature, The Bhagavata Purana is a versatile Hindu sacred text containing more than 14,000 Sanskrit verses. Finding its present form around the tenth century C.E., the work inspired several major north Indian devotional (bhakti) traditions as well as schools of dance a...

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Main Author: Gupta, Ravi M. (Author)
Contributors: Valpey, Kenneth R. (Other)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: New York Columbia University Press 2013
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Reviews:Review of 1) Kristin Johnston Largen, Baby Krishna, Infant Christ: A Comparative Theology of Salvation, Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2011, ISBN 978-1570759321, pb, x + 246 pp.; 2) Ravi M. Gupta and Kenneth R. Valpey, eds., The Bhāgavata Purāṇa: Sacred Text and Living Tradition, New York: Columbia University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0231149990, pb, xvi + 279 pp (2014) (Irvine, Andrew B.)
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505 8 0 |a Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction | Churning the Oceaon of Lila: Themes for Bhagavata Study; PART ONE The World of the Bhagavata; 1. Reading | Puranic Trekking Along the Path of the Bhagavatas; 2. Time and Narrative | A Mandala of Rememberance: The Bhagavata Purana's Time Transcending Narrative of Lila; 3. COSMOLOGY | Dialogues on Natural Theology: The Bhagavata Purana's Cosmology as Religious Practice; 4. ETHICS | ""May Calamities Befall Us at Every Step"" : The Bhagavata's Response to the Problem of Evil; 5. COMMENTARY | Vallabha, the Bhagavata Purana, and the Path of Grace 
505 8 0 |a 6. SACRED GEOMETRY | Vraja-Dhaman: Krishna Embodied in Geographic Place and Transcendent-Space7. THEOLOGY | The Rasa Lila of Krishna and the Gopis: On the Bhagavata's Vision of Boundless Love; PART TWO The Bhagavata in the World; 8. BOUNDARIES | Heresy and Heretics in the Bhagavata Purana; 9. DANCE | Krishna Come Soon: Bharata Natyam and the Bhagavata Purana on Stage; 10. SONG | Two Braj Bhasa Versions of the Rasa-Lila Pancadhyayt and Their Musical Performance in Vaisnava Worship; 11. RECITATION | ""Live with the Text and Listen to Its Words"" : Bhagavata Recitation in Changing Times 
505 8 0 |a 12. TEXT HISTORY | Modern Reception and Text Migration of the Bhagavata PuranaBibliography; Author Profiles; Index 
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