India: A Sacred GeographyHarmony/Rodale, 27/03/2012 - 576 من الصفحات In India: A Sacred Geography, renowned Harvard scholar Diana Eck offers an extraordinary spiritual journey through the pilgrimage places of the world's most religiously vibrant culture and reveals that it is, in fact, through these sacred pilgrimages that India’s very sense of nation has emerged. No matter where one goes in India, one will find a landscape in which mountains, rivers, forests, and villages are elaborately linked to the stories of the gods and heroes of Indian culture. Every place in this vast landscape has its story, and conversely, every story of Hindu myth and legend has its place. Likewise, these places are inextricably tied to one another—not simply in the past, but in the present—through the local, regional, and transregional practices of pilgrimage. India: A Sacred Geography tells the story of the pilgrim’s India. In these pages, Diana Eck takes the reader on an extraordinary spiritual journey through the living landscape of this fascinating country –its mountains, rivers, and seacoasts, its ancient and powerful temples and shrines. Seeking to fully understand the sacred places of pilgrimage from the ground up, with their stories, connections and layers of meaning, she acutely examines Hindu religious ideas and narratives and shows how they have been deeply inscribed in the land itself. Ultimately, Eck shows us that from these networks of pilgrimage places, India’s very sense of region and nation has emerged. This is the astonishing and fascinating picture of a land linked for centuries not by the power of kings and governments, but by the footsteps of pilgrims. India: A Sacred Geography offers a unique perspective on India, both as a complex religious culture and as a nation. Based on her extensive knowledge and her many decades of wide-ranging travel and research, Eck's piercing insights and a sweeping grasp of history ensure that this work will be in demand for many years to come. |
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... created not by homing in on the singular importance of one place, but by the linking, duplication, and ... creation of clusters and circles of sacred places, the articulation of groups of four, five, seven, or twelve sites—all this ...
... created not by homing in on the singular importance of one place, but by the linking, duplication, and ... creation of clusters and circles of sacred places, the articulation of groups of four, five, seven, or twelve sites—all this ...
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... created a geographical sphere, a “Sanskrit cosmopolis," that stretched across what we call “India.”" There is no question that the “pilgrims India” provides an important perspective for understanding India, not simply in the past, but ...
... created a geographical sphere, a “Sanskrit cosmopolis," that stretched across what we call “India.”" There is no question that the “pilgrims India” provides an important perspective for understanding India, not simply in the past, but ...
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... creating the lived landscape. Pilgrims leave home, and the tracks of their journeys create a circuit of meaning and connection. Individual pilgrimage is not easy to document in India, for there is little tradition of personal pilgrimage ...
... creating the lived landscape. Pilgrims leave home, and the tracks of their journeys create a circuit of meaning and connection. Individual pilgrimage is not easy to document in India, for there is little tradition of personal pilgrimage ...
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... created by the pilgrimage routes is the landscape of Kerala, enlivened with the story of Lord Ayyappa, clearly a local hero—deity. It is the tale ofan abandoned child, found and adopted by a childless king and raised to succeed him. But ...
... created by the pilgrimage routes is the landscape of Kerala, enlivened with the story of Lord Ayyappa, clearly a local hero—deity. It is the tale ofan abandoned child, found and adopted by a childless king and raised to succeed him. But ...
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... created mental “map" of Bharata. But mapping the land of India was not the domain of pilgrims alone. With the British East India Company in the eighteenth century came the British surveyors and cartographers, with a very dififerent eye ...
... created mental “map" of Bharata. But mapping the land of India was not the domain of pilgrims alone. With the British East India Company in the eighteenth century came the British surveyors and cartographers, with a very dififerent eye ...
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Rose APPLE ISLAND INDIA IN THE LOTUS OF THE WORLD | 107 |
THE GANGĀ AND THE RIVERS OF INDIA | 131 |
Shivas LIGHT IN THE LAND OF INDIA | 189 |
SHAKTI THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE BODY OF THE GODDESS | 257 |
VISHNU ENDLESS AND DESCENDING | 301 |
THE LAND AND STORY OF KRISHNA | 347 |
THE RĀMĀYANA ON THE LANDSCAPE OF INDIA | 399 |
CHAPTERIO A PILGRIMS INDIA TODAY | 441 |
Acknowledgments | 457 |
Glossary | 461 |
Bibliography | 475 |
Notes | 493 |
Index | 541 |
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