The Place of the Hid­den Moon: Erotic Mys­ti­cism in the Vaishnava-sahajiya Cult of Ben­gal, by Edward C. Dimock, Jr.
SOME EXCERPTS AND COMMENTS
In her 1989 fore­word, Wendy Doniger says:
This is the most reli­able and indeed alto­gether the best book I know on all of the many Indo­log­i­cal sub­jects with which it deals, some of them major […]

Schol­arly Com­ments on Chai­tanya Chari­ta­m­rita
Some time ago, I wrote a blog express­ing the need for a schol­arly explo­ration of just who the his­tor­i­cal Krishna Chai­tanya really was. Recently, a friend com­mented on it say­ing, “let’s get the ball rolling.” Hav­ing some time avail­able, I make some com­ments on what we may actu­ally know, espe­cially when […]