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Songs on the Road
This book consists of seven chapters on the subject of poetry and itinerancy within the religious traditions of India, Tibet, and Japan from ancient to modern times. The chapters look, each from a different angle, at how itinerancy is reflected in religious poetry, what are the purposes of the wanderers’ poems or songs, and how the wandering poets relate to local communities, sacred geography, and institutionalized religion. We encounter priest-poets in search of munificent patrons, renouncers and yogins who sing about the bliss and hardship of wandering alone in the wilderness, Hindu pilgrims and opponents of pilgrimage, antinomian Buddhist-Tantric poets from Bengal, and the originator of the haiku. We are led along roads travelled by many, as well as paths tread by few.
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Keywords
- Buddhism
- Early Indic languages
- Hinduism
- History Of Art / Art & Design Styles
- history of religion
- Humanities
- Indic, East Indo-European & Dravidian languages
- Journey
- Language qualifiers
- Poetry
- Religion
- Religion & beliefs
- Religion: general
- Sanskrit
- The arts
- thema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2B Indic, East Indo-European and Dravidian languages::2BB Early Indic languages::2BBA Sanskrit
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of art
- thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: general::QRAX History of religion
- thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRD Hinduism
- thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRF Buddhism
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DOI: 10.16993/bbiweb: http://www.stockholmuniversitypress.se/site/books/e/10.16993/bbi/
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