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Nueve vidas : En busca de lo sagrado en la India de hoy.
The product of a 25-year exploration of India's cultural and religious traditions, this collection of biographies introduces the reader to nine unforgettable characters, including a Buddhist monk who takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet and then spends the rest of his life tryi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Español |
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Chicago :
Editorial Kairos,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The product of a 25-year exploration of India's cultural and religious traditions, this collection of biographies introduces the reader to nine unforgettable characters, including a Buddhist monk who takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet and then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the violence by hand printing the best prayer flags in India; a Jain nun who tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve to death; and a devadasi, or temple prostitute, who initially resists her own initiation into sex work, yet pushes both of her daughte. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (443 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9788472457973 8472457974 |