威廉.達爾林普(William Dalrymple)
蘇格蘭人,於佛斯海灣﹝Firth of Forth﹞的海邊長大。劍橋大學畢業後,曾為《獨立報》﹝Independent﹞專欄作家。年方二十二歲,便出版了暢銷又備受好評的《在薩那都》﹝In Xanadu﹞,此書於一九九○年獲得《約克郡郵報》﹝Yorksire Post﹞的最佳處女作品獎,以及蘇格蘭藝術協會春季圖書獎;並曾入圍John Llewelyn Rhys紀念獎。一九八九年他遷居德里,在當地居住四年,位本書蒐集資料並為《星期天通訊》﹝Sunday Correspondent﹞、《觀察者》﹝Spectator﹞、《觀察家》﹝Observer﹞以及《週日時報》﹝Sunday Times﹞等報紙撰稿。曾獲《週日時報》年度英國青年作家獎。
威廉.達爾林普與藝術家奧莉維亞.弗來瑟﹝Olivia Fraser﹞結婚,目前在倫敦和愛丁堡兩地居住。
发表于2024-12-23
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图书标签: 印度 宗教 文化 Dalrymple religion 游记 散文、杂文、游记 英文原版
From the prize-winning author of White Mughals and City of Djinns, Nine Lives is a distillation of twenty-five years of exploring India and writing about its religious traditions – a modern Indian Canterbury Tales which introduces us to characters and takes us deep into worlds we could never have imagined existed.
A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet – then spends years trying to atone for the violence by hand-printing the best prayer flags in India. A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve to death. A woman leaves her middle-class family in Calcutta, and her job in a jute factory, only to find unexpected love and fulfilment living as a tantric in a skull-filled hut in a remote cremation ground. A prison warden from Kerala becomes, for two months of the year, a temple dancer and is worshipped as an incarnate deity; then, at the end of February each year, he returns to prison.
An illiterate goat herd from Rajasthan keeps alive an ancient 4000-line sacred epic that he, virtually alone, still knows by heart. A devadasi – or temple prostitute – initially resists her own initiation into sex work, yet pushes both her daughters into a trade she now regards as a sacred calling.
Nine people, nine lives. Each one taking a different religious path, each one an unforgettable story. Exquisite and mesmerising, and told with an almost biblical simplicity, William Dalrymple’s first travel book in a decade explores how traditional forms of religious life in South Asia have been transformed in the vortex of the region’s rapid change.
这就是学宗教的意义……一日一省。内在的世界比外在的花花绿绿都要重要很多。 // got unexpectedly really emotional when reading the last story... 走圣人这条路也可以有歌声、朋友和家人伴随左右。
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评分通过九个故事揭示了宗教作为具体的生活方式的一面。宗教消除人日常生活的恐惧,驱散对于人身意义的怀疑,引导人对行为和现象进行反思,时常来源于生活环境对于内心的折磨,往往又止于内心和环境的分离。很难给宗教一个明晰确切的定义,但又可以说每个人都以自己的方式信奉着某种宗教。宗教形式的形态万千,正如人的思维和情感,是意识形态和历史构建背后的真实存在。
评分世间有百种形态,皆是人生
评分讀過Introduction,The Daughters of Yellamma,和與未來研究方向有關的The Lady Twilight和The Song of the Blind Minstrel。William Dalrymple真是個好寫手,很精彩。另,印度教的Tara跟佛教的完全不一樣啊!
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