D Dennis Hudson

The Body of God (eBook, ePUB)

An Emperor's Palace for Krishna in Eighth-Century Kanchipuram

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Produktbeschreibung

This remarkable book is the crowning achievement of the great scholar of Hinduism D. Dennis Hudson. Although Hudson died without completing it, the work has been brought to fruition by editor Margaret Case. The book is a finely detailed study of a renowned Tamil Hindu temple, the Vaikuntha Perumal (ca. 770 C.E.). Hudson uses this temple as an illustration of one major current and historical stage in South Indian Vaisnava religion. He offers a sustained reading of the temple as a coherent, organized, minutely conceptualized mandala whose code can be cracked by close analysis of the temple iconography and structure in the light of major literary and religious texts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190451400
• Artikelnr.: 42675462

Autorenporträt

About the author: D. Dennis Hudson (1938-2006) was Professor Emeritus of World Religions at Smith College from 1970 until his retirement in 2000. He published numerous articles, most related to his lifelong study of Vaikintha Perumal Temple in Kanchipuram. In addition, he published Protestant Origins in India: Tamil Evangelical Christians, 1706-1835 in 2000. About the editor: Margaret Case was for many years Asian Studies editor at Princeton University Press. She is the editor of Govindadeva: A Dialogue in Stone (1996) and author of Seeing Krishna: The Religious World of a Brahman Family in Vrindaban (2000). She organized this volume from virtually complete but differently structured chapters, and compiled the glossary with diacritical marks.

Inhaltsangabe

* Editor's Note: Margaret H. Case
* List of Illustrations
* Abbreviations
* Introduction: The Discovery
* Part I: The Approach to the Vishnu-house
* 1. The Significance of the Temple
* 2. Six Concepts
* 3. The Poem
* 4. The Emperor's Career Portrayed on the Prakara Wall
* Part II The Secret Dimension of the Vishnu-house
* 5. The Temple Mandala and the Bottom-Floor Sanctum
* 6. The Middle-Floor Sanctum: The Sculpted Program of the Northern
Path
* 7. Northern Panels of the Northern Path: Transforming Power
* 8. Northern Panels of the Northern Path: Fortifying Omniscience
* 9. The Middle-Floor Sanctum: The Sculpted Program of the Southern
Path
* 10. The Southern Panels of the Southern Path: "The Path of the
Southern Doctrine"
* Part III The Public Dimension of the Vishnu-house
* 11. The Vimana Panels on the Western Side
* 12. The Panels on the Ardhamandapa or Porch
* 13. The Vimana Panels on the Northern Side
* 14. The Vimana Panels on the Eastern Side
* Appendix 1. Who Are the Bhagavatas?
* Appendix 2. Vasudeva's Path in the Satvata-samhita
* Appendix 3. Prithu, the People's Indra
* Appendix 4. Mantras in the Jayakhya-samhita
* Appendix 5. Periya Tirumoli 2.9
* Notes
* Glossary
* Bibliography
* Index