TY - JOUR
TI - Literary Cartography in the Keralan Hagiographies of the Advaita Vedānta Tradition
AU - Nowicka, Olga
TI - Literary Cartography in the Keralan Hagiographies of the Advaita Vedānta Tradition
AB - 
	The proposed paper concerns the hitherto unstudied regional hagiographic tradition of Śaṅkara – the great Indian philosopher and founder of the pan-Indian monastic order within the Advaita Vedānta doctrine in Kerala (South India). This literary tradition is represented by a series of lesser-known texts in Sanskrit and Malayalam. The objective of this article is to examine some of the cultural and literary methods of space valorization and creation of literary cartographies. The sacred topography created through the hagiographic narrative causes the overlap of spatial religious concepts and physical geography of temples, monasteries and pilgrimage sites. Therefore, the theoretical approach applied during the examination of the hagiographic tradition in question remains informed by the method of literary cartography.
VL - 2019
IS - Volume 52, Issue 4
PY - 2019
SN - 0137-2432
C1 - 2084-4077
SP - 293
EP - 307
DO - 10.4467/20844077SR.19.021.11628
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-religiologica/article/literackie-kartografie-w-keralskich-hagiografiach-tradycji-adwaita-wedanty
KW - Kerala
KW - hagiography
KW - monasticism
KW - Nampūtiri
KW - Advaita Vedānta
KW - literary cartography