{"id":263,"date":"2017-10-02T17:46:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T14:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/?p=263"},"modified":"2021-10-19T14:18:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T11:18:00","slug":"pilgrimage-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/pilgrimage-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilgrimage Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Northern India has two great theatrical traditions intended to commemorate the <i>avatars<\/i> or incarnations of God Vishnu. They are <i>raslila<\/i>, which enacts the turning points of Lord Krishna\u2019s life, and <i>ramlila<\/i>, which enacts the events of Prince Rama\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>Both of them are closely connected to the North Indian <i><a href=\"http:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/the-drama-proper\/\">bhakti<\/a><\/i> movement. They are both performed by amateur actors, while pre-adolescent boys play the main roles. Thus the focus is neither on the artistry of the performance nor on the skills of the actors.<\/p>\n<p>The performances are, in fact, offerings and rituals. <i>Raslila<\/i> is rather small in scale, and was originally performed in temple courtyards, while <i>ramlila<\/i> may grow into a huge pageant covering one month and gathering together hundreds of thousands of ecstatically worshipping pilgrims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern India has two great theatrical traditions intended to commemorate the avatars or incarnations of God Vishnu. They are raslila, which enacts the turning points of Lord Krishna\u2019s life, and ramlila, which enacts the events of Prince Rama\u2019s life. Both of them are closely connected to the North Indian bhakti movement. They are both performed [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2536,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/2536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}