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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... King. Sacrifi ces, with their many implements and their many various requisites, are the province of princes, or sometimes very rich men, but not of single individuals who are deficient in means and implements and who do not have the ...
... King. Sacrifi ces, with their many implements and their many various requisites, are the province of princes, or sometimes very rich men, but not of single individuals who are deficient in means and implements and who do not have the ...
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... King: the holy practice of pilgrimage [tirt/Jaydtrd] excels even the sacrifi cel" The mdbdtmyas, the texts of praise that sing the hymns and tell the stories of how the tirtlmr became sacred and enumerate the benefits of pilgrimage ...
... King: the holy practice of pilgrimage [tirt/Jaydtrd] excels even the sacrifi cel" The mdbdtmyas, the texts of praise that sing the hymns and tell the stories of how the tirtlmr became sacred and enumerate the benefits of pilgrimage ...
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... king and raised to succeed him. But ajealous queen, wanting her own son to become king, asked the boy to fetch some tigress milk to help cure a dangerous illness from which she was suffering. The boy boldly took the challenge and ...
... king and raised to succeed him. But ajealous queen, wanting her own son to become king, asked the boy to fetch some tigress milk to help cure a dangerous illness from which she was suffering. The boy boldly took the challenge and ...
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... king Bhagiratha, she agreed to descend from heaven to earth to raise the dead ancestors of the solar kings of Ayodhya. To break the force of her fall, Ganga fell fl rst upon the head of Lord Shiva in the Himalayas and then flowed across ...
... king Bhagiratha, she agreed to descend from heaven to earth to raise the dead ancestors of the solar kings of Ayodhya. To break the force of her fall, Ganga fell fl rst upon the head of Lord Shiva in the Himalayas and then flowed across ...
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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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