圖書標籤: 印度 宗教 文化 Dalrymple religion 遊記 散文、雜文、遊記 英文原版
发表于2024-12-23
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From the prize-winning author of White Mughals and City of Djinns, Nine Lives is a distillation of twenty-five years of exploring India and writing about its religious traditions – a modern Indian Canterbury Tales which introduces us to characters and takes us deep into worlds we could never have imagined existed.
A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet – then spends years 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 fulfilment living as a tantric in a skull-filled hut 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 4000-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 mesmerising, and told with an almost biblical simplicity, William Dalrymple’s first travel book in a decade explores how traditional forms of religious life in South Asia have been transformed in the vortex of the region’s rapid change.
威廉.達爾林普(William Dalrymple)
蘇格蘭人,於佛斯海灣﹝Firth of Forth﹞的海邊長大。劍橋大學畢業後,曾為《獨立報》﹝Independent﹞專欄作傢。年方二十二歲,便齣版瞭暢銷又備受好評的《在薩那都》﹝In Xanadu﹞,此書於一九九○年獲得《約剋郡郵報》﹝Yorksire Post﹞的最佳處女作品獎,以及蘇格蘭藝術協會春季圖書獎;並曾入圍John Llewelyn Rhys紀念獎。一九八九年他遷居德裏,在當地居住四年,位本書蒐集資料並為《星期天通訊》﹝Sunday Correspondent﹞、《觀察者》﹝Spectator﹞、《觀察傢》﹝Observer﹞以及《週日時報》﹝Sunday Times﹞等報紙撰稿。曾獲《週日時報》年度英國青年作傢獎。
威廉.達爾林普與藝術傢奧莉維亞.弗來瑟﹝Olivia Fraser﹞結婚,目前在倫敦和愛丁堡兩地居住。
通過九個故事揭示瞭宗教作為具體的生活方式的一麵。宗教消除人日常生活的恐懼,驅散對於人身意義的懷疑,引導人對行為和現象進行反思,時常來源於生活環境對於內心的摺磨,往往又止於內心和環境的分離。很難給宗教一個明晰確切的定義,但又可以說每個人都以自己的方式信奉著某種宗教。宗教形式的形態萬韆,正如人的思維和情感,是意識形態和曆史構建背後的真實存在。
評分九個人的故事,印度的宗教和精神世界。文字極美
評分九個人的故事,印度的宗教和精神世界。文字極美
評分九個人的故事,印度的宗教和精神世界。文字極美
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Nine Lives pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024