Nika Kuchuk
Biographic Data
| ID | 1431179 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nika Kuchuk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nika |
| FAMILY NAME | Kuchuk |
| SIGNATURE | KUCHUK N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7811-8074 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The life incarnate and the life divine
Mirra Alfassa (1878-1973), better known as The Mother, was Sri Aurobindo's spiritual partner and co-founder of Integral Yoga, a global movement based in South India and currently numbering multiple centres around the world. Affectionately addressed by her devotees at the Ashram as Douce Mère (Sweet Mother), Alfassa is understood to be an incarnation of the Universal Mother, or Shakti, who has 'taken birth' on earth in order to facilitate the spir…
“Translating Texts, Transmitting Tradition
It is well known that religious practitioners have engaged heavily (though of course not exclusively) with written and oral texts across the history of South Asian religions. How, precisely, textual lives-the histories of texts in their production and use and their transformation or translation across linguistic, geographic, sectarian, and temporal spaces-have served to define and shape South Asian religious traditions and Hinduism1 in particular…
The Limits of Text and Tradition
Part of a larger project interrogating literal and discursive translation in late-colonial Vedāntic thought, this paper focuses on Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society and its key ideologue. Blavatsky grounded her articulation of Theosophical teachings in a mysterious source text, purportedly written in a sacerdotal language known as the Senzar. In presenting herself as its translator, Blavatsky deftly maneuvers between …
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“Translating Texts, Transmitting Tradition
It is well known that religious practitioners have engaged heavily (though of course not exclusively) with written and oral texts across the history of South Asian religions. How, precisely, textual lives-the histories of texts in their production and use and their transformation or translation across linguistic, geographic, sectarian, and temporal spaces-have served to define and shape South Asian religious traditions and Hinduism1 in particular…
The Limits of Text and Tradition
Part of a larger project interrogating literal and discursive translation in late-colonial Vedāntic thought, this paper focuses on Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society and its key ideologue. Blavatsky grounded her articulation of Theosophical teachings in a mysterious source text, purportedly written in a sacerdotal language known as the Senzar. In presenting herself as its translator, Blavatsky deftly maneuvers between …
The life incarnate and the life divine
Mirra Alfassa (1878-1973), better known as The Mother, was Sri Aurobindo's spiritual partner and co-founder of Integral Yoga, a global movement based in South India and currently numbering multiple centres around the world. Affectionately addressed by her devotees at the Ashram as Douce Mère (Sweet Mother), Alfassa is understood to be an incarnation of the Universal Mother, or Shakti, who has 'taken birth' on earth in order to facilitate the spir…
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