The Bijak of Kabir / Edition 1

by Linda Hess, Shukdev Singh

Overview

Kabir was an extraordinary oral poet whose works have been sung and recited by millions throughout North India for half a millennium. He may have been illiterate and he preached an abrasive, sometimes shocking, always uncompromising message that exhorted his audience to shed their delusions, pretentions, and empty orthodoxies in favor of an intense, direct, and personal confrontation with the truth. Thousands of poems are popularly attributed to Kabir, but only a few written collections have survived over the centuries. The Bijak is one of the most important, and is the sacred book of those who follow Kabir.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195148763
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/18/2002
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	216
Sales rank:	803,351
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 9.28(h) x 0.64(d)

About the Author

Stanford University

Banaras Hindu University in India (Retired)

Editorial Reviews

"An invaluable introduction to the Bījak tradition." —Journal of the American Oriental Society

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