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The Final Word (Tony K. Stewart)
The Final Word: The Caitanya Caritāmṛta and the Grammar of Religious Tradition

It analyses how the Chaitanya Charitamrita became the definitive version of Chaitanya's life and theology, integrating and neutralising the rival traditions of Bengal, Orissa and Vrindavan. It is the current academic reference on the sources and on the construction of the master's memory.
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Authorship note
Monograph by Tony K. Stewart, a specialist in Bengali religious literature.
Editions and translations
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English

The Final Word: The Caitanya Caritamrta and the Grammar of Religious Tradition
Oxford University Press, 2010
ISBN 9780195392722
Other works by Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
- Shikshashtaka (Eight Stanzas of Instruction)
- Stanzas attributed to Chaitanya in the Padyavali
- Chaitanya Charitamrita (Krishnadasa Kaviraja) · 1612
- Chaitanya Bhagavata (Vrindavana Dasa) · 1545
- Murari Gupta's notes (Śrīkṛṣṇacaitanyacaritāmṛtam)
- Chaitanya Charitamrita Mahakavya (Kavi Karnapura) · 1542
- Chaitanya Chandrodaya (Kavi Karnapura) · 1572
- Chaitanya Mangala (Lochana Dasa) · 1560
- Chaitanya Mangala (Jayananda) · 1560
- Teachings of Lord Chaitanya (A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami) · 1968
- Chaitanya and His Age (Dinesh Chandra Sen) · 1922
- The Chaitanya Movement (Melville T. Kennedy) · 1925
Sources
- Stewart, Tony K. The Final Word: The Caitanya Caritāmṛta and the Grammar of Religious Tradition. Nueva York: Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN 9780195392722.
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