The fading light of Advaita Ācārya : three hagiographies / Rebecca J. Manring.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Manring, Rebecca J. (Rebecca Jane)

Series:

AAR religion in translation.

AAR religion in translation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Advaita Ācārya.

Vaishnavites--Biography.

Vaishnavites.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Notes on Translation and Transliteration; A Case Study in Hagiography; Haricarana Dāsa's Advaita Mangala; Laudiya Krsnadāsa's Bālya-Lilā-Sūtra; Īśāna Nāgara's Advaita Prakāśa; Appendixes; Glossary of Names, Epithets, and Terms; A; B; C; D; E; G; H; I; J; K; M; N; P; R; S; T; U; V; Y; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contains:

Haricaraṇa Dāsa. Advaita maṅgala. English.

Lāuḍīya Kr̥ṣṇadāsa. Bālyalīlasūtra. English.

Īśāna Nāgara, 1865-1954. Advaita prakāśa. English.

ISBN:

1-283-22303-1

9786613223036

0-19-983786-4

OCLC:

742333463