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1 online resource : text file, PDF |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; A Note on the Transliterations; Introduction; PART I: NĀTH YOGĪS' IDENTITY; 1. REFERENCES; Nine Nāths and Eighty-four Siddhas; Gorakhnāth; Gorakhnāth's Textual Corpus; Haṭha Yoga; Legends and Powers; Deities; Gorakhnāth as God; The Goddess; Bhairav; 2. BELONGING TO THE SAMPRADĀYA; Initiations; Last Rites; Sect Organization; The Panths; The Mahāsabhā; 3. WANDERING ASCETICS; PART II: COLLECTIVE MONASTERIES; 4. THE KADRI MAṬH: HISTORY; Mangalore, the Town and its Temples |
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A Reading of the Legend of Paraśurām: Mañjunāth's AppearanceThe Kadalī Mañjunātha Māhātmyaṁ; Mañjunāth Temple and its History; The Tenth Century Statues: Buddhists or Shaivites?; Lokeśvara: A Transitional God; Kadri or Kadalī Van: The Plantain Forest, the Goddess Mangalādevī and the Nāth Anchorage; Historical Hypothesis; The Kadri Monastery in Modern Times; The Monastic Structure; 5. KADRI RĀJĀ'S ENTHRONEMENT; Siṁhastha Kumbh Melā: Tryambakeshvar; The Selection of the Rājā; The Cult of the Pātradevatā: The Making of a Community; The Ascetic Pilgrimage; The Enthronement of the Kadri Rājā |
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The Arrival of the JhuṇḍīThe Vittal Monastery; The Consecration or Paṭṭābhiṣek; Adhikār, Entitlement: Enthronement and Coronation; Parting with the Pātradevatā; Comparison with other Consecration Rituals; Comparison with other Nāth Monasteries; Other Monastic Investitures; Installation Ceremonies of the Kings; Another Model: The Consecration of a Spiritual Master; Back in Kadri: An Original Synthesis; 6. CAUGHERA MAṬH (DANG VALLEY, NEPAL): LEGENDS OF FOUNDATION; Yogīs and Kings; Caughera Monastery: The Place; The Legends of Ratannāth; Ratan's Initiation: Local Roots |
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Nāth Legitimation: Ratannāth as KanīpāRatannāth, Ratan Bābā, Hajji Ratan; Ratannāth's Travels as Narrated in Caughera; Ratan and Gogā Pīr: A Samādhi in Gogamedhi; Hājji Ratan of Bhatinda; Ratan al-Hindī: Muslim Polemical Accounts; Back to Caughera: Hindus and Muslims; 7. THE YOGĪS IN THE KINGDOM: RITUAL SERVICES AND WORLDLY POSSESSIONS; Caughera Rituals; The Nitya Pūjā: Daily Ritual; Pīrsthāpanā; Caughera Monastic Properties; Caughera's Status vis-à-vis its Dependants; The Monastery and the State: Control and Conflicts; PART III: PERSONAL MONASTERIES; 8. FATEHPUR ASHRAM |
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Hagiography: Amritnāth and the Monastic FoundationAmritnāth's Youth; His Life as an Ascetic; Analysis: A Hagiography in a Familiar Space; 9. INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF THE FATEHPUR ASHRAM'S NĀTH BELONGING; Amritnāth's Affiliation; Amritnāth's Succession; Transmission and Growth of the Mannāthī Panth; The Throne and the Tomb; Dhūnī and Guphā (the Fireplace and the Cave); 10. LAY FOLLOWERS, PATRONAGE AND SEVĀ: FATEHPUR AND GORAKHPUR; Fatehpur, the Marwari Network; Devotees' Duties; Devotees' Expectations and Guru's Powers; Festivals; Gorakhpur: A Political Monastery |
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"How have the premodern Shaiva ascetic sect of the Nath Yog's (known also as the Yog?s with splitted ears) succeeded in maintaining its presence and importance until today? This book intends to give a general survey of this samprad?ya which is said to have been founded by the Siddha Gorakhn?th, known for his strong link to Ha?ha Yoga. However, rather than to Yoga, the history and expansion of the N?th sect are linked to its rich legendary corpus. Dealing first with the marks of belonging (such as the huge earrings worn by the fully initiated Yog?s) which give the sect its unity, the book then focuses on its organization and explores the dialectics between the wandering Yog?s and the monastic settlements. The N?th monasteries belong to two categories: the pañc?yati ma?hs, collectively owned and managed by the sectarian authorities, which ensure the permanency of the sect, and the n?j? ma?hs, owned on a personal basis and transmitted from guru to disciple, which permits innovative initiativesThe book gives a detailed account of two pañc?yati monasteries, the Kadri Ma?h of Mangalore where its head's enthronement is spectacularly performed every twelve years, and the Caughera Ma?h of Dang Valley in Nepal, the royal foundation of which gives a glimpse of the complex relationships that can exist between monasteries and kingdoms. It then focuses on three n?j? ma?hs: Amritashram in Fatehpur (Rajasthan), Ashtal Bohar in Rohtak (Haryana) and the Gorakhpur mandir (UP). Each of them shows a different mode of adaptation to a modern context and attests of the present importance and continuity of this pluri-secular tradition of asceticism."--Provided by publisher |
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Nātha sect -- South Asia
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Yogis -- South Asia
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RELIGION -- Cults.
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RELIGION -- Meditations.
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RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
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Nātha sect
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Yogis
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South Asia
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203731376 |
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0203731379 |
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9781351399616 |
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1351399616 |
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9781138095397 |
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1138095397 |
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