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City of Mirrors - Songs of Lalan Sai (Hardcover)
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City of Mirrors - Songs of Lalan Sai (Hardcover)
Series: South Asia Research
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Carol Salomon dedicated over thirty years of her life to
researching, translating, and annotating this compilation of songs
by the Bengali poet and mystical philosopher Lalan Sai (popularly
transliterated as Lalon) who lived in the village of Cheuriya in
Bengal in the latter half of the nineteenth century. One major
objective of his lyrical riddles was to challenge the restrictions
of cultural, political, and sexual identity, and his songs
accordingly express a longing to understand humanity, its duties,
and its ultimate destiny. His songs also contain thinly veiled
references to esoteric yogic practices (sadhana), including
body-centered Hathayogic techniques that are related to those found
in Buddhist, Kaula, Natha, and Sufi medieval tantric literature.
Dr. Salomon's translation of the work is the first dedicated
English translation of Lalan's songs to closely follow the Bangla
text, with all of its dialectical variations, and is here produced
alongside the original text. Although her untimely death left her
work unpublished, the editors have worked diligently to reconstruct
her translations from her surviving printed and handwritten
manuscripts. The result is a finished product that can finally
share her groundbreaking scholarship on Baul traditions with the
world.
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