S R Ramanujan

The Lord of Vengadam (eBook, ePUB)

A Historical Perspective

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The temple for the Lord of Vengadam in Tirumala (Andhra Pradesh, India) is one of the richest places of worship in the entire world with ever-increasing popularity, the footfall of devotees on the Seven Hills touching a whopping figure of seventy thousand on weekdays and one hundred thousand during the weekends. The Temples annual budget hovers around 25 billion rupees. This world record to fame and riches is not without its flip side. The temple has become the focal point for a variety of controversiessome created by the political class, some by historians with an axe to grind, and some more by Hindus with a sectarian outlook. The never-ending dispute is over the identity of the idol as a result of the age-old conflict between the worshippers of Siva and Vishnu, the two most important deities of the Hindu pantheon. Taking their cue from this, Neo-Buddhists joined the fray with the claim that the temple was a Buddhist shrine and that it was converted into Vishnu temple by wily Brahmins. The book aims to unravel the mystery over the history of the temple, providing a historical perspective to the issue and thus establishing the real identity of the Lord, which is indisputably that of the Vishnu.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Partridge Publishing India
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781482834635
• Artikelnr.: 52434171

Autorenporträt

The author, with thirty years of standing in print and television journalism, held various top positions in different media houses of Andhra Pradesh (India) and was associated with the television arm-Sri Venkateswara Bhakti Channel-of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams as its COO.