Into the twilight of Sanskrit court poetry : the Sena salon of Bengal and beyond / / Jesse Ross Knutson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910787897103321
• Autore: Knutson Jesse Ross
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• ISBN: 0-520-95779-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (223 p.)
• Collana: South Asia across the disciplines
• Disciplina: 891/.21009
• Soggetti: Sanskrit poetry - History and criticism; Poetics - History - To 1500; Bengal (India) Intellectual life; Bengal (India) Court and courtiers
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Political Poetic of the Sena Court -- 2. Poetic Antigravity: Govardhana's Āryāsaptaśatī -- 3. The Vernacular Cosmopolitan: Jayadeva's Gītagovinda -- 4. Vulgar Kāvya: Baḍu Canḍīdās's Śrīkṛsṇīrttana -- Conclusion: The Tropography of the Sena World -- Appendix A. The Complete Verses Attributed to the Sena Kings -- Appendix B. The Complete Verses Attributed to Govardhana (Not Found in the Āryāsaptaśatī) -- Appendix C. The Complete Verses Attributed to Jayadeva (not found in the Gītagovinda) -- Appendix D. Gītagovinda-Śrīkṛsṇīrttana Correspondences -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: At the turn of the twelfth-century into the thirteenth, at the court of King Laksmanasena of Bengal, Sanskrit poetry showed profound and sudden changes: a new social scope made its definitive entrance into high literature. Courtly and pastoral, rural and urban, cosmopolitan and vernacular confronted each other in a commingling of high and low styles. A literary salon in what is now Bangladesh, at the eastern extreme of the nexus of regional courtly cultures that defined the age, seems to have implicitly reformulated its entire literary system in the context of the imminent breakdown of the old courtly world, as Turkish ; power expanded and redefined the landscape. Through close readings of a little-known corpus of texts from eastern India, this ambitious book demonstrates how a local and rural sensibility came to infuse the cosmopolitan language of Sanskrit, creating a regional literary idiom that would define the emergence of the Bengali language and its literary traditions.

Sensory biographies : lives and deaths among Nepal's Yolmo Buddhists / / Robert Desjarilais

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782924503321
• Autore: Desjarlais Robert R
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, Calif. : , : University of California Press, , 2003
• ISBN: 1-59734-893-7; 9786612762796; 1-282-76279-6; 0-520-93674-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 396 pages)
• Collana: Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; ; 2
• Disciplina: 294.3/923/09225496; B
• Soggetti: Lamas - Nepal; Buddhists - Nepal; Death - Religious aspects - Buddhism; Helambu Sherpa (Nepalese people) - Religion; Ethnography; Nepal Religious life and customs
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Note on Transliteration -- Kurāgraphy -- Hardship, Comfort -- Twenty-Seven Ways of Looking at Vision -- Startled into Alertness -- A Theater of Voices -- "I've Gotten Old" -- Essays on Dying -- "Dying Is This" -- The Painful Between -- Desperation -- The Time of Dying -- Death Envisioned -- To Phungboche, by Force -- Staying Still -- Mirror of Deeds -- Here and ; There -- "So: Ragged Woman" -- Echoes of a Life -- A Son's Death -- The End of the Body -- Last Words -- Notes -- Glossary of Terms -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Robert Desjarlais's graceful ethnography explores the life histories of two Yolmo elders, focusing on how particular sensory orientations and modalities have contributed to the making and the telling of their lives. These two are a woman in her late eighties known as Kisang Omu and a Buddhist priest in his mid-eighties known as Ghang Lama, members of an ethnically Tibetan Buddhist people whose ancestors have lived for three centuries or so along the upper ridges of the Yolmo Valley in north central Nepal. It was clear through their many conversations that both individuals perceived themselves as nearing death, and both were quite willing to share their thoughts about death and dying. The difference between the two was remarkable, however, in that Ghang Lama's life had been dominated by motifs of vision, whereas Kisang Omu's accounts of her life largely involved a "theatre of voices." Desjarlais offers a fresh and readable inquiry into how people's ways of sensing the world contribute to how they live and how they recollect their lives.