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Journey through the Twelve Forests: An Encounter with Krishna
by David L. Haberman
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (1994-04-28)
ISBN: 0195084799
EAN: 9780195084795
Dewy Decimal #: 294.53509542
Paperback: 272 pages
SKU: 080529007
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: This copy is in good condition. Theres considerable amount of neat underlining/reference column writing to different parts of copy. No visible highlights, tears to text. Top fore-edge has pen writing. A few pages has smooth-out reference folds. Tight spine. No Dust Jacket. Soft Cover has minimum/moderate, shelf/edge wear. Apart from minor flaws, one can get a lot of usage from this very interesting copy, worth having at an affordable price. (4J-8)
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
A lively account of the Ban Yatra, a circular pilgrimage that takes place in the northern Indian land of Braj, this anthropological chronicle offers an appealing mixture of personal anecdote, religious theory, Indian history, and tales of the gods. Based on personal experience in the field, as well as a combination of primary sources in Sanskrit, Hindi, and Bengali--many never before translated into Western languages--and a wide range of secondary literature, Haberman places the pilgrimage in its cultural and historical context, interweaving his account with retellings of the tales of Krishna, perhaps the most popular of Indian deities and the entity around which the journey revolves. In the process, he explores the effects of the Ban-Yatra upon its participants and weighs its particular implications for current theories about pilgrimage in general. The first thorough study of this kind of cyclical Hindu pilgrimage, Journey through the Twelve Forests will interest any student of South Asian culture and pilgrimage.
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Customer Reviews
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Excellent book about the land of Vraja
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-03-23
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Braj is a region in Uttar Pradesh of India surrounding the city of Mathura, and is considered to be the land of Krishna. This book deals with the author's participation in the Ban-Yatra, a two-hundred mile, 22-day pilgrimage around Braj during the rainy season.
This book is very readable and enjoyable: part travel guide, part history book, part religious textbook.
The book was written by David L. Haberman, the Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University. His writing seems even-handed and scholarly. I assume he is just a researcher and not a Vaishnava, but still, in Chapter Five he reports his astonishing and wonderful vision on the banks of the pond known as Prema Sarovara. The vision left him "shaken", and reading it had the same effect on me.
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