TY - JOUR
TI - Local Advaita Vedānta Monastic Tradition in Kerala: Locating, mapping, networking
AU - Nowicka, Olga
TI - Local Advaita Vedānta Monastic Tradition in Kerala: Locating, mapping, networking
AB - 
	The article concerns the hitherto unstudied regional variant of the Advaita Vedānta monasticism of the Nampūtiri tradition in Kerala. The main objective of the paper is to present the spatial distribution of the Advaita Vedānta maṭhas (skr. maṭha – “monastery”) in the state of Kerala (South India). Through the cartographic visualisation, I intend to prove that the monastic tradition in question has, in the past, created a network of intricate ritualistic, economic, social and political interrelations spreading across whole Kerala region. The spatial analysis will allow to evaluate the qualities of the maṭhas’ geographical distribution.
VL - 2019
IS - 9 (1/2019)
PY - 2019
SN - 2450-2561
C1 - 2450-6249
SP - 27
EP - 51
DO - 10.4467/24506249PJ.19.002.11134
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/pjacns/article/local-advaita-vedanta-monastic-tradition-in-kerala-locating-mapping-networking
KW - monasticism
KW - Advaita Vedānta
KW - Śaṅkara
KW - Nampūtiri brahmins
KW - Kerala
KW - Thrissur