Mahapurush Sankaradeva and the Bhakti Renaissance in Assam in Light of the Phenomenology of Religious Experience

Abstract

The article considers the medieval Bhakta Saint of Assam, Mahapurush Srimanta Sankaradeva in the context of a phenomenological understanding of what it means to undergo a religious experience, and how it transforms not only the life of the saint but the thinking of an entire tradition.