The Bijak of Kabir - Hardcover

Hess, Linda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195148754 ISBN 13: 9780195148756

Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, 2002

Synopsis

Kabir was an extraodinary oral poet whose works have been sung and recited by millions throughout North India for half a millennium. He may have been illiterate: "I do not touch ink or paper, this hand has never grasped a pen" and he preached an abrasive, sometimes shocking, always uncompromising message that exhorted his audience to shed their delusions, pretensions, and empty orthodoxies in favour 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.

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Review

"Hess has liberated this fresh and stunning voice from centuries of pious encrustation on the Indian side, and decades of unwitting conventionality on our own" -- Parabola

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0195148754
• ISBN 13: 9780195148756
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 216