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Asceticism
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guru mummification
gurus
Hindu iconography
Hindu icons
Hindu monastery
Hindu murti
Hindu relics
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medieval gurus
medieval Hinduism
medieval India
medieval South India
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Sanatana dharma
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South India
South Indian Hinduism
Vaishnavism
Vedanta dualism
Vedanta gurus
Vedanta monastery
Product details
- ISBN 9781793622396
- Weight: 313g
- Dimensions: 154 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 11 May 2022
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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.
