Songs on the Road Wandering Religious Poets in India, Tibet, and Japan
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 wande...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Stockholm
Stockholm University Press
2021
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| Series: | Stockholm Studies in Comparative Religion
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| Collection: | Directory of Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Creative Commons (cc), by/4.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (154 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9789176351369 9789176351383 9789176351376 9789176351390 |