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Songs on the Road: Wandering Religious Poets in India, Tibet, and Japan

by Stefan Larsson , Kristoffer Af Edholm
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9789176351390
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Stockholm University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Stockholm University Press
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  • Pages: 154
  • Original Price: GBP 7.5
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 186 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Comparative Religion

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.


Af Edholm, Kristoffer: - PhD Student in History of Religions. He has studied Indo-European religions, Vedic ritual, ancient Indian kingship, asceticism, and renunciation. ORCID: 0000-0002-5786-1421

Larsson, Stefan: - Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in religious studies, received his PhD in History of Religions from Stockholm University in 2009. Larsson's research focuses on the non-monastic and practice-oriented aspects of Tibetan Buddhism. ORCID: 0000-0002-1320-7073

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