TY  - BOOK
ED  - Larsson, Stefan
ED  - af Edholm, Kristoffer
AB  - This book consists of seven chapters on the subject of poetry and itinerancy within the religious traditions of India, Tibet, and Japan from ancient to modern times. The chapters look, each from a different angle, at how itinerancy is reflected in religious poetry, what are the purposes of the wanderers’ poems or songs, and how the wandering poets relate to local communities, sacred geography, and institutionalized religion. We encounter priest-poets in search of munificent patrons, renouncers and yogins who sing about the bliss and hardship of wandering alone in the wilderness, Hindu pilgrims and opponents of pilgrimage, antinomian Buddhist-Tantric poets from Bengal, and the originator of the haiku. We are led along roads travelled by many, as well as paths tread by few.
DO  - 10.16993/bbi
ID  - OAPEN ID: ONIX_20210723_9789176351369_20
ID  - OAPEN ID: 2002-4606
ID  - OAPEN ID: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50184
KW  - Hinduism
KW  - Buddhism
KW  - Journey
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Religion
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/50184/1/9789176351369.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/71424
PB  - Stockholm University Press
PP  - Stockholm
PY  - 2021
SN  - 9789176351369
SN  - 9789176351376
SN  - 9789176351383
SN  - 9789176351390
TI  - Songs on the Road : Wandering Religious Poets in India, Tibet, and Japan
ER  - 
