India: A Sacred GeographyIn 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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Perhaps this hill is a piece of the Himalayas transported to Gujarat; this river is the Ganga gushing up from underground in Orissa; this temple is Kashi Vishvanath, re-created in the south. All these ways of speaking of divine presence ...
Perhaps this hill is a piece of the Himalayas transported to Gujarat; this river is the Ganga gushing up from underground in Orissa; this temple is Kashi Vishvanath, re-created in the south. All these ways of speaking of divine presence ...
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The Narmada fi ows from the body of Shiva at Amarakantaka, in the hills of eastern Madhya Pradesh. The Godavari was brought to earth by the prayers of the sage Gautama and descended on the top of Brahmagiri in the Western Ghats of what ...
The Narmada fi ows from the body of Shiva at Amarakantaka, in the hills of eastern Madhya Pradesh. The Godavari was brought to earth by the prayers of the sage Gautama and descended on the top of Brahmagiri in the Western Ghats of what ...
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Innumerable places are said to be tirthas because the divine burst forth in that very place. A particularly powerful example of this form of sanctification is the hill called Dawn Mountain, Arunachala, rising from the fiatlands of ...
Innumerable places are said to be tirthas because the divine burst forth in that very place. A particularly powerful example of this form of sanctification is the hill called Dawn Mountain, Arunachala, rising from the fiatlands of ...
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One climbs on the hill itself only barefoot. One of the great festival days of the year, Krittika Dipa, in the lunar month of November—Deeember, recalls this luminous eruption of Shiva. Thousands of people converge on the town of ...
One climbs on the hill itself only barefoot. One of the great festival days of the year, Krittika Dipa, in the lunar month of November—Deeember, recalls this luminous eruption of Shiva. Thousands of people converge on the town of ...
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... fashioned by Sita on the seashore at Rameshvara, a sand image that became immovable stone. And such is the story of the image of Krishna whose cart got stuck in the mud and simply would not move from a place in the Aravalli Hills ...
... fashioned by Sita on the seashore at Rameshvara, a sand image that became immovable stone. And such is the story of the image of Krishna whose cart got stuck in the mud and simply would not move from a place in the Aravalli Hills ...
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معاينة المستخدمين - RajivC - LibraryThingI approached this book with a skeptical mind mind, and some small measure of curiosity. I was soon hooked onto the book, and it was very clear that Diana Eck approached the subject with a lot of ... قراءة التقييم بأكمله
INDIA: A Sacred Geography
معاينة المستخدمين - KirkusA far-reaching exploration of the spiritual geography and sacred spaces of India.With its hundreds of disparate peoples connected by a shared conception of place, India is, in the words of statesman ... قراءة التقييم بأكمله
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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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