Reconstructing tradition : Advaita Ācārya and Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism at the cusp of the twentieth century

Rebecca J. Manring

Advaita Acarya was one of the leading figures in the genesis of the Bengali Vaisnava movement in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Though crucial to the movement's origins, Advaita's standing among subsequent generations of Bengali Vaisnavas began to fade, only to be reestablished once again during the nineteenth century. In her groundbreaking study, Rebecca Manring examines the ways in which Advaita's followers used his life story to define, preserve, and reconstruct a political and religious movement. Manring's illuminating and detailed readings of Middle Bengali and Sanskrit texts reveal the evolving hagiographical traditions concerning Advaita. Her work also presents new perspectives on theological issues within the Bengali Vaisnava tradition, the role of sacred biography, and the religious history of South Asia.Advaita rose to prominence as the older teacher and right-hand man to Caitanya, the founder of the Vaisnava movement. As a Brahman, Advaita also helped the movement gain acceptance among the religious establishment. However, his school and its promotion of conservative brahman values began to lose adherents in the next generation as other, less tradition-bound groups came to the fore. In the late nineteenth century his followers reasserted their place in Bengali Vaisnavism by demonstrating, through their hagiographies, that they alone represented Caitanya's, and hence Advaita's, original vision and that they alone had kept it untainted despite the potential for contamination from external forces. Manring analyzes how members of Advaita's school used established imagery and techniques to sustain their claim for the religious superiority of an individual andrecreated themselves in light of the changing political and social contexts of nineteenth-century Bengal.

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  • IntroductionThe Birth of an ImageAdvaita crya: A New ImminenceVariant Messages: Non-Hagiographical Texts Treating Advaita AcaryaRevival and ReturnAnother "Black Forgery," or Mere Play?Advaita PrakasaSita Devi: Gateway to the FutureAdvaita Acarya TodayConclusions

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書名 Reconstructing tradition : Advaita Ācārya and Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism at the cusp of the twentieth century
著作者等 Manring, Rebecca J.
Manring Rebecca
出版元 Columbia University Press
刊行年月 c2005
ページ数 xii, 305 p., [7] p. of plates
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 0231129548
NCID BB25662028
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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