TY - BOOK ID - 77883870 TI - The fading light of Advaita Ācārya : three hagiographies AU - Manring, Rebecca J. AU - Haricaraṇa Dāsa. AU - Lāuḍīya Kr̥ṣṇadāsa. AU - Īśāna Nāgara PY - 2011 SN - 1283223031 9786613223036 0199837864 9780199837861 9780199736461 0199736464 9780199736478 0199736472 PB - Oxford : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Vaishnavites KW - Advaita Ācārya. KW - Advaitācarya, KW - Kamalākṣa Bhaṭṭācārya KW - Advaita Acarya, KW - Vaishnavites - Biography. KW - Advaita Acarya, - 15th century. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77883870 AB - Rebecca J. Manring offers an illuminating study and translation of three hagiographies of Advaita Acarya, a crucial figure in the early years of the devotional Vaisnavism which originated in Bengal in the fifteenth century. Advaita Acarya was about fifty years older than the movement's putative founder, Caitanya, and is believed to have caused Caitanya's advent by ceaselessly storming heaven, calling for the divine presence to come to earth. Advaita was a scholar and highly respected pillar of society, whose status lent respectability and credibility to the new movement. A significant body of ER -