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100 1 $aDalrymple, William.
245 10 $aNine lives :$bin search of the sacred in modern India /$cWilliam Dalrymple.
260 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bBloomsbury,$c2009.
300 $axvi, 284 pages :$billustrations, map ;$c24 cm
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500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $aMap -- Introduction -- 1: Nun's tale -- 2: Dancer of Kannur -- 3: Daughters of Yellamma -- 4: Singer of Epics -- 5: Red Fairy -- 6: Monk's tale -- 7: Maker of idols -- 8: Lady Twilight -- 9: Song of the Blind Minstrel -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
520 $aFrom the Dust Jacket: A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet-then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the violence by hand printing the best prayer flags in India. A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve to death. A woman leaves her middle-class family in Calcutta, and her job in a jute factory, only to find unexpected love and fulfillment living as a Tantric skull feeder in a remote cremation ground. A prison warden from Kerala becomes, for two months of the year, a temple dancer and is worshipped as an incarnate deity; then, at the end of February each year, he returns to prison. An illiterate goat herd from Rajasthan keeps alive an ancient 4,000-line sacred epic that he, virtually alone, still knows by heart. A devadasi-or temple prostitute-initially resists her own initiation into sex work, yet pushes both her daughters into a trade she now regards as a sacred calling. Nine people, nine lives. Each one taking a different religious path, each one an unforgettable story. Exquisite and mesmerizing, and told with an almost biblical simplicity, William Dalrymple's first travel book in over a decade explores how traditional forms of religious life in South Asia have been transformed in the vortex of the region's rapid change. A distillation of twenty-five years of exploring India and writing about its religious traditions, Nine Lives is a modern Indian Canterbury Tales.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 269-274) and index.
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