Nine Lives Epz Edition (English, Paperback, Dalrymple William)
Nine Lives is a collection of stories from around modern India and explores the traditional lives of the religious people of South Asia. The book was written after twenty-five years of exploring India and writing about its religious traditions.
Summary of the Book
The book is a collection of stories about people who practice religion in different ways across India. A Buddhist monk is forced to resort to arms as a way of keeping the Chinese away from Tibet. He spends the rest of his life making up for his sins by making the best prayer flags in India. A Jain woman wants to test her power of detachment. She does this by watching her best friend follow a ritual in which she starves to death. A woman in Calcutta leaves behind her middle class family and her job in a jute factory. She later finds love and a fulfilling life as a Tantric skull feeder in a cremation ground. A prison warden from Kerala is a temple dancer for two months of the year where he is worshipped as a deity. A goatherd from Rajasthan keeps an epic alive and knows it by heart. A devadasi, who resisted her own initiation into sex work, pushes her daughters into the same line as she now regards it as a sacred calling. All the stories in this book talk about the different religious paths in India.
About William Dalrymple
William Dalrymple is a British historian, writer, art historian, and curator. He is also a well-known broadcaster and critic. He has won many awards for his books like the Duff Cooper and the Wolfson Prize. He is also one of the co-founders and co-directors of the annual Jaipur Literature Festival.
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Great read !! Must for anyone who wants to learn about Buddhism
ALOK SAXENA
Certified Buyer, New Delhi
Jun, 2015
Interesting read, but almost.
Akshay Raj
Certified Buyer, Mysore
Jan, 2014
An interesting read which unfolds amazing facts about different religious sects.
Manuj jain
Jan, 2014
Simply Superb
Aravindan Natarajan
Certified Buyer
Oct, 2013
Brilliant
Ramchandra Hegde
Certified Buyer, Pune
Jan, 2018
Fabulous
Vikram Singh
Certified Buyer, New Delhi
Jul, 2014
Good
SHABARISH V
Certified Buyer, Patiala
Mar, 2016