Seeing through Texts invites us into the world of south Indian Hinduism through a study of 100 songs of the Tiruvaymoli, the great masterpiece of the ninth-century Hindu saint Sa?kopan. These unique songs, dedicated to the Hindu god Vi??u/K???a, lead us through poetic and imaginative, philosophical and moral reflections on the nature of the self and the world, ancient myths and temple worship, and the mystical moods of longing, desire, and love in which one seeks, loses, and finds again the God who loves us first. The book is also a study of the interpretation of the Tiruvaymoli in the traditional Hindu Srivai??ava commentaries of the twelfth-fourteenth centuries, as well as a comparative theological study which explores the implication of the songs and their commentaries for readers from outside the Srivai??ava tradition.
| ISBN: | 9780791429952 |
| Publication date: | 3rd July 1996 |
| Author: | Francis X Clooney |
| Publisher: | SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 351 pages |
| Series: | SUNY Series, Toward a Comparative Philosophy of Religions |
| Genres: |
Religion and beliefs |