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Nine lives : in search of the sacred in modern India /
From the Dust Jacket: A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet-then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the violence by hand printing the best prayer flags in India. A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve to...
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury,
2009.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Nine lives : |b in search of the sacred in modern India / |c William Dalrymple. |
| 260 | |a London ; |a New York : |b Bloomsbury, |c 2009. | ||
| 300 | |a xvi, 284 p. : |b ill., map ; |c 24 cm. | ||
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| 500 | |a Includes index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Map -- Introduction -- 1: Nun's tale -- 2: Dancer of Kannur -- 3: Daughters of Yellamma -- 4: Singer of Epics -- 5: Red Fairy -- 6: Monk's tale -- 7: Maker of idols -- 8: Lady Twilight -- 9: Song of the Blind Minstrel -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index. | |
| 520 | |a From the Dust Jacket: A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet-then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the violence by hand printing the best prayer flags in India. A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve to death. A woman leaves her middle-class family in Calcutta, and her job in a jute factory, only to find unexpected love and fulfillment living as a Tantric skull feeder in a remote cremation ground. A prison warden from Kerala becomes, for two months of the year, a temple dancer and is worshipped as an incarnate deity; then, at the end of February each year, he returns to prison. An illiterate goat herd from Rajasthan keeps alive an ancient 4,000-line sacred epic that he, virtually alone, still knows by heart. A devadasi-or temple prostitute-initially resists her own initiation into sex work, yet pushes both her daughters into a trade she now regards as a sacred calling. Nine people, nine lives. Each one taking a different religious path, each one an unforgettable story. Exquisite and mesmerizing, and told with an almost biblical simplicity, William Dalrymple's first travel book in over a decade explores how traditional forms of religious life in South Asia have been transformed in the vortex of the region's rapid change. A distillation of twenty-five years of exploring India and writing about its religious traditions, Nine Lives is a modern Indian Canterbury Tales. | ||
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| 651 | 0 | |a India |x Social conditions. | |
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