The Bhāgavata Purāna (eBook)

Ravi M. Gupta is associate professor of religious studies at the The College of William and Mary and is the author of The Caitanya Vaisnava Vedanta of Jiva Gosvami: When Knowledge Meets Devotion.Kenneth R. Valpey is a research fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and has been a regular visiting scholar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

PrefaceIntroduction. Churning the Ocean of L?l?: Themes for Bhagavata StudyPart One: The World of the Bh?gavata1. Reading: Pur??ic Trekking Along the Path of the Bh?gavatas2. Time and Narrative: A Ma??ala of Remembrance: The Bh?gavata Pur??a's Time-Transcending Narrative of L?l?3. Cosmology: Dialogues on Natural Theology: The Bh?gavata Pur??a's Cosmology as Religious Practice4. Ethics: "May Calamities Befall Us at Every Step": The Bh?gavata's Response to the Problem of Evil5. Commentary: Vallabha, the Bh?gavata Pur??a, and the Path of Grace6. Sacred Geography: Vraja-Dh?man: Krishna Embodied in Geographic Place and Transcendent Space7. Theology: The R?sa L?l? of Krishna and the Gop?s: On the Bh?gavata's Vision of Boundless LovePart Two: The Bh?gavata in the World8. Boundaries: Heresies and Heretics in the Bh?gavata Pur??a9. Dance: Krishna Come Soon: Bharata Natyam and the Bh?gavata Pur??a on Stage10. Song: Two Braj Bh??? Versions of the R?sa L?l? Pañc?dhy?y? and Their Musical Performance in Vai??ava Worship11. Recitation:12. Text History: Modern Reception and Text Migration of the Bh?gavata Pur??aBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex