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From the author of The Last Mughal and In Xanadu, comes a mesmerizing book that explores how traditional religions are observed in today’s India, revealing ways of life that we might otherwise never have known. A middle-class woman from Calcutta finds unexpected fulfillment living as a Tantric in an isolated, skull-filled cremation ground . . . A prison warder from Kerala is worshipped as an incarnate deity for two months of every year . . . A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment watching her closest friend ritually starve herself to death . . . The twenty-third in a centuries-old line of idol makers struggles to reconcile with his son’s wish to study computer engineering . . . An illiterate goatherd keeps alive in his memory an ancient 200,000-stanza sacred epic . . . A temple prostitute, who resisted her own initiation into sex work, pushes her daughters into the trade she nonetheless regards as a sacred calling. William Dalrymple tells these stories, among others, with expansive insight and a spellbinding evocation of remarkable circumstance, giving us a dazzling travelogue of both place and spirit
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Nine Lives, William Dalrymple
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2009
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- Titolo
- Nine Lives
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- William Dalrymple
- Editore
- Bloomsbury Publishing/PRO
- Pubblicato
- 2009
- Formato
- In brossura
- ISBN10
- 1408801531
- ISBN13
- 9781408801536
- Serie
- Tag
- Saggistica, Tema stórico, Mappe e viaggi, Esoterismo e religione, Storie vere, Biografie, Storia, Viaggi, Temi religiosi, Religione, Spiritualità e Religione, Guide turistiche, Buddhismo, Reportage letterario, Asia, Indie, Induismo, Sikhismo, Tantra, Vita religiosa, Sufismo
- Prima pubblicazione
- 2009
- Titolo originale
- Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India
- Valutazione
- 4,05 su 5
- Descrizione
- From the author of The Last Mughal and In Xanadu, comes a mesmerizing book that explores how traditional religions are observed in today’s India, revealing ways of life that we might otherwise never have known. A middle-class woman from Calcutta finds unexpected fulfillment living as a Tantric in an isolated, skull-filled cremation ground . . . A prison warder from Kerala is worshipped as an incarnate deity for two months of every year . . . A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment watching her closest friend ritually starve herself to death . . . The twenty-third in a centuries-old line of idol makers struggles to reconcile with his son’s wish to study computer engineering . . . An illiterate goatherd keeps alive in his memory an ancient 200,000-stanza sacred epic . . . A temple prostitute, who resisted her own initiation into sex work, pushes her daughters into the trade she nonetheless regards as a sacred calling. William Dalrymple tells these stories, among others, with expansive insight and a spellbinding evocation of remarkable circumstance, giving us a dazzling travelogue of both place and spirit