10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HAGIOGRAPHIES»
Discover the use of
hagiographies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
hagiographies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Fading Light of Advaita Acarya: Three
Hagiographies
Manring provides a detailed introduction to these texts, as well as remarkably faithful translations of Haricarana Dasa's Advaita Mangala, Laudiya Krsnadasa's Balya-lila-sutra, and Isana Nagara's Advaita Prakasa.
2
The
Hagiographies of Anantadas: The Bhakti Poets of North India
This critical study of Anantadas 'biographies' of 15th and 16th century bhakti poets gives a broad spectrum of the linguistic and morphlogical variants and reveals the process of oral and scribal transmission which allowed sectarian ...
3
Tendentious
Hagiographies: Jewish Propagandist Fiction BCE
An exploration of the intention and purpose of ten Jewish texts composed between the 8th and mid-2nd century BCE.
4
Inventing Hui-neng, the Sixth Patriarch: Hagiography And ...
Having examined the contents of the hagiographies of Hui-neng for their
structures and models of the life, and considered the afterlife in the relics, I now
shift my attention to the formation of the hagiographies as documents. If
hagiographies ...
5
One Lifetime, Many Lives: The Experience of Modern Hindu ...
Analysis of the earliest hagiographies of Swami Rama Tirtha, his
autohagiographical writings, and the 1989 RJC has suggested that the nature of
the reporting of experience (the hagiographer's own as well as others') is a
significant factor in ...
The social forms were distinct from the specific needs of the time and community,
and the hagiographies represent consistently emerging sacred personas for their
protagonists. Moreover, siddha hagiographies in particular are best examined ...
7
To Live as Long as Heaven and Earth: A Translation and Study ...
GROUP. A: Earliest-Attested. Hagiographies. Al. Bo He $*P Version i Bo He,
styled Zhongli It ?t , was a native of Liaodong. ' He entered the Earth's Lungs
Mountains2 to serve |Dong Feng. Dong Feng transmitted to him methods of
circulating ...
Robert Ford Campany, 2002
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Popular Literature and Pre-modern Societies in South Asia
16. Legends,. Hagiographies. and. Sufism. in. North-Eastern. India. During. the.
Pre-Colonial. Period. F.A. Qadri It was in ad 1205 that the first Muslims arrived in
Assam, the northeastern extremity of the Indian subcontinent. The region had ...
Surinder Singh, I. D. Gaur, 2008
9
The Life and Revelations of Pema Lingpa
Hagiographies can serve multiple functions. As stories of "complete liberation" (
mam thar), hagiographies depict the life of a saint as both an exemplar and
object of veneration.40 As such, the genre of hagiography is specifically meant to
...
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Among the Luminaries in Assam: A Study of Assamese Biography
And this chapter would, of course, cover the verse biographies alone, verse
being the earlier medium of our hagiographies of this period. The hagiographies
of this period can be divided into three groups, viz., the caritas of the two gurus, ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HAGIOGRAPHIES»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
hagiographies is used in the context of the following news items.
Particle physics: Inside the Rad Lab
... this tale — but the book looked heavy, at least in the gravitational sense, and I am not a fan of hagiographies. However, I was soon gripped. «Nature.com, Jul 15»
Russian economic winds blow cold in Chinese border town
... macho image and willingness to confront Washington, with a cottage industry dedicated to producing hagiographies of the Russian leader. «Yahoo News, Jul 15»
Porous divide
Set in the context of the period when numerous hagiographies, such as tazkira and malfuzat, were being written, the authors argue that there ... «Frontline, Jul 15»
By the side of the 'First Muslim'
I knew about the Prophet from the beginning of my life, had read about him in elementary books of theology, not to forget a few hagiographies ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
Review: 'Amy,' an Intimate Diary of Amy Winehouse's Rise and …
... tougher and more interesting than the usual official biographies-hagiographies. Universal also provided Mr. Kapadia complete access to her ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
And Now For Something Completely Different
More hagiographies of Marco Rubio. More whining about how white people can't use the N-word. More blog posts about Jonah Goldberg's dog ... «Mother Jones, Jun 15»
All the World's a Half-Built Dam
Somehow I do not recall Rajmohan Gandhi having a similar problem with any of the veritable mountain of Gandhian hagiographies that exist in ... «Economic and Political Weekly, Jun 15»
Wal-Mart does so much wrong, but the shame is that none of it is …
A Kerkorian autobiography would have made an infinitely more interesting read than the self-serving ghosted hagiographies that most ... «The Independent, Jun 15»
Mihir S Sharma: Our own histories
Thus, we seek out sanitised hagiographies of the Leaders of the Freedom Movement, which make us feel good about ourselves; or we read ... «Business Standard, Jun 15»
When 'the total man' becomes a woman
On YouTube you can find a TV clip of Jenner from the Games. It's one of those ABC-TV hagiographies depicting the athlete as mythic figure. «Chicago Tribune, Jun 15»
