Fading Light of Advaita Acarya

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, ca...