Lal Ded

Books Abroad ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 392
Author(s):  
Eusebio L. Rodrigues ◽  
Jayalal Kaul
Keyword(s):  
Lal Ded

Lal Ded

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Tilak Raj Chopra
Keyword(s):  
Lal Ded

Radical Grace: Hymning of ‘Womanhood’ in Therigatha

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaustav Chakraborty
Keyword(s):  
Female Body ◽  
Feminine Spirituality ◽  
Women Mystics ◽  
Lal Ded

Focusing primarily on Therigatha,1 the poems by the first Buddhist women, and correlating them with the compositions of non-Buddhist women mystics like Meerabai, Lal Ded, Muktabai, Janabai and Akka Mahadevi, this article is a study of spirituality, femininity and poetic expressions in a comparative mode. The article aims to address two major issues: First, it attempts to understand how the women mystics asserted their authority as the conveyers of divine message in a society which was essentially patriarchal and suspicious about the credentials of feminine utterances. Second, the article seeks to delineate a certain womanizing of saintliness through the invoking of domesticity (role as wife and mother) and the use of metaphors related to the female body and desire by these select women mystics as the denouement of a radical stance of an ascetic ‘feminine spirituality’, aimed at discovering transcendence even by retaining the conscious deploying of the components, often viewed as mundane.

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