The Building of Vṛndāvana

Kiyokazu Okita, D.Phil. (2011), University of Oxford, is Associate Professor of Hindu Studies at Faculty of Liberal Arts / Graduate Program in Global Studies, Sophia University. He is the author of Hindu Theology in Early Modern South Asia (OUP, 2014). Rembert Lutjeharms, D.Phil. (2010), University of Oxford, is a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and Research Lecturer in Hindu Studies at the Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford. He is the author of A Vaiṣṇava Poet in Early Modern Bengal (OUP, 2018).

List of Illustrations


Notes on Contributors





Introduction


 Rembert Lutjeharms and Kiyokazu Okita





Part 1: Builders


1 A Sixteenth-Century Testimony on Vṛndāvana’s First-Generation Pioneers


 Heidi Pauwels





2 The Hari-bhakti-vilāsa as a Specimen of Early Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism in Vṛndāvana


 Måns Broo





Part 2: Building


3 The Gauḍīya Reimagining of Vraja as a Bimodal Domain


 Pilgrimage Place and Transcendent Space


 Barbara A. Holdrege





4 Building Vṛndāvana as a Locus of Rasa


 The Stotras of Rūpa Gosvāmī


 David Buchta





5 Building the Spiritual Vṛndāvana


 Music and the Rāsa Dance at the Centre of Kṛṣṇa Devotion


 Guy L. Beck





Part 3: Buildings


6 A Temple of Stone and a Temple of Love


 Govindadeva in the Religious Imagination of Early Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavas


 Rembert Lutjeharms





7 Kings of the Mountains


 Govardhana-līlā and Kachavāhā Patronage at the Govindadeva Temple in Vṛndāvana


 Cynthia Packert





8 The Ideal Real Vṛndāvana of Jayasiṃha’s Dining Room


 John Stratton Hawley





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