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Beschreibung
Kabir was an extraordinary oral poet whose works have been sung and recited by millions throughout North India for half a millennium. He may have been illiterate and he preached an abrasive, sometimes shocking, always uncompromising message that exhorted his audience to shed their delusions, pretentions, and empty orthodoxies in favor of an intense, direct, and personal confrontation with the truth. Thousands of poems are popularly attributed to Kabir, but only a few written collections have survived over the centuries. The Bijak is one of the most important, and is the sacred book of those who follow Kabir.
Kabir was an extraordinary oral poet whose works have been sung and recited by millions throughout North India for half a millennium. He may have been illiterate and he preached an abrasive, sometimes shocking, always uncompromising message that exhorted his audience to shed their delusions, pretentions, and empty orthodoxies in favor of an intense, direct, and personal confrontation with the truth. Thousands of poems are popularly attributed to Kabir, but only a few written collections have survived over the centuries. The Bijak is one of the most important, and is the sacred book of those who follow Kabir.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Preface

  • Transliteration and Abbreviations

  • INTRODUCTION

  • 1: Kabir's Life and work

  • 2: Rough Rhetoric

  • 3: The Untellable Story

  • 4: 'Numskull, You've Missed the Point!'

  • TRANSLATIONS

  • 1: Sabda

  • 2: Ramaini

  • 3: Sakhi

  • APPENDICES

  • A: Upside-down Language

  • 1. The Tradition

  • 2. The Cow is Sucking at the Calf's Teat: Interpreting

  • Kabir's Upside-down Song

  • B: A Note on Meter and Rhyme

  • C: Versions and Editions of the Bijak and Errors in the Hindi Edition

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780195148763
ISBN-10: 0195148762
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Kabir
Simha, Sukadeva
Übersetzung: Hess, Linda
Singh, Shukdev
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Kabir (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.05.2002
Gewicht: 0,365 kg
Artikel-ID: 120657120