Lalla Ded - Life and Poems: Volume 5 (Introduction to Bhakti Poets Series) - Softcover

Ded, Lalla

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1541382862 ISBN 13: 9781541382862

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

LALLA DED: LIFE AND POEMS Translation & Introduction by Paul Smith Lalla Ded is the famous female Bhakti poet/saint from Kashmir who lived at exactly the same time as Hafiz of Shiraz (1320-1392). Her vakhs (poems/sayings) are sung even today in Kashmir. She was married at a young age but the marriage was a failure and she walked out at the age of twenty-four. She became a disciple of Siddha Srikanth. It must have taken a lot of courage on her part to walk out of a marriage and to walk around unclothed as she did. She was treated with contempt by some and much reverence by others, seeing her as a saint and eventually as God-realized. Her two hundred vakhs are some of the oldest examples of Kashmiri written. She was a bridge between Hindu mysticism (Bhakti) and Sufism. Her poems are more influential today than ever, not only in Kashmir. Here are many of her poems with correct form and meaning. Introduction on her Life & Poetry & on Bhakti & Bhakti Poetry. 116 pages. ~Introduction to Bhakti Poets Series~ TULSIDAS, KABIR, VRIND, LALLA DED, RAHIM, VYASA, JAYADEVA (approx. 110-120 pages each… others to follow) Paul Smith (b. 1945) is a poet, author and translator of many books of Sufi poets from the Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Pashtu, Hindi and other languages including Hafiz, Sadi, Nizami, Rumi, ‘Attar, Sana’i, Jahan Khatun, Obeyd Zakani, Mu’in, Amir Khusrau, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Khayyam, Rudaki, Lalla Ded, Mahsati, Baba Farid, Iqbal, Vrind, Rahim, Ghalib, Ghani Kashmiri and others, and his own poetry, fiction, biographies, plays, children’s books and a dozen screenplays. New Humanity Books amazon.com/author/smithpa

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Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1541382862
• ISBN 13: 9781541382862
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 118