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- Title: Temple to Love (Book Review)
- Author : The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 169 KB
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Temple to Love: Architecture and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Bengal. By PIKA GHOSH. Bloomington: INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2005. Pp. xv + 255. In the seventeenth century, a religious movement centered on the worship of the divine couple Krisna and Radha, and named Gaudiya Vaishnavism, became a cultural force for transforming the countryside of southwestern Bengal into a cosmopolitan urban environment. Folklore has it that more than three hundred temples were built in the newly established capital of the local Malla dynasty, which then became Vishnupur, the city of the Hindu god Visnu, of whom Krisna is the blue-bodied, erotic incarnation. A handful of exuberant temples that still remain in the vicinity of Vishnupur is the subject of this tirelessly researched, elaborately conceptualized, lucid, and accessible study worthy of the Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities it has received.
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