Kabīr: The Name without Form (DHUN Gallery 5)

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राम -नाम, जय श्री राम, श्री राम, राम, राधे-राम Rām-nām, Jay Śrī Rām, Śrī Rām, Rām, Rādhe-Rām, Raam-naam, jay shrii raam, shrii raam, raam, raadhe-raam. (Scriptures in different scripts, mainly Devanagari. Handwritten, printed fonts and engraved. Some inscriptions are ellegible/partially visble.)

Title:: Kabīr: The Name without Form (DHUN Gallery 5)
Creator:: Piyush Kukrety; Borayin Larios; Kanika Pruthi
Date Created:: 2026
Description:: The figure and name of Rām have never belonged to a single form, theology, or tradition. In the bhakti movements of North India, poets such as Kabir reworked Rām beyond the boundaries of orthodox devotion, transforming the name into a critique of ritual hierarchy, caste, and religious division. This reconfiguration of Rām opened pathways for other devotional and poetic traditions. Across these traditions, the divine name circulated less as a singular image and more as a shared vocabulary of spiritual intimacy, social critique, and ethical life. The repetition of the name became a practice through which alternative religious communities imagined belonging outside dominant structures of authority. Contains sign board, stone, wall paintings, stone gate, electrical billboard, shrine with flower, frame, light bulb, top of a stone structure, stairs at the ghāṭ, orange cloth, sculpture and stone hand, tree, flower chain/garland, post cards and flyers with images, tray with tea, green carpet, wooden encarved and wooden relief shrine, orange rope tied around a stick, red encarving, wooden ceiling with ventilator.
Subjects:: dhun digital essay wall painting textile tree flower garland post card
Location:: Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Latitude:: 25.19
Longitude:: 82.59
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.57754/FDAT.ghg0b-e6k30

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Citation:: "Kabīr: The Name without Form (DHUN Gallery 5)", OMnibus of MANTRAMS, MANTRAMS - Mantras in Religion, Media, and Society in Global Southern Asia, https://omnibus.mantrams.eu/items/dhun-g5.html

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