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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... made Banaras not unique, but inextricably part of a wider landscape shaped by the repetition and linking of its features. I began to realize that K-ashi was not the center, but one of multiple centers in. 2 DIANA L. Ec|<
... made Banaras not unique, but inextricably part of a wider landscape shaped by the repetition and linking of its features. I began to realize that K-ashi was not the center, but one of multiple centers in. 2 DIANA L. Ec|<
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... linked with the tracks of pilgrimage. The most important of the religious claims of this sacred city is that Kashi, the City of Light, is a place of spiritual liberation, which is called moles/Ja or mukti. Kasbydm maranam mu/zti/.1 ...
... linked with the tracks of pilgrimage. The most important of the religious claims of this sacred city is that Kashi, the City of Light, is a place of spiritual liberation, which is called moles/Ja or mukti. Kasbydm maranam mu/zti/.1 ...
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... linked this small village, its temple, and its bathing tank with Kashi and the larger sacred geography of India made real for me the notions I had read in the texts for many years. I found that Gupta Kashi is also linked to the great ...
... linked this small village, its temple, and its bathing tank with Kashi and the larger sacred geography of India made real for me the notions I had read in the texts for many years. I found that Gupta Kashi is also linked to the great ...
الصفحة 3
... linking this world with the world beyond. The pilgrims India is a vividly imagined landscape that has been created not by homing in on the singular importance of one place, but by the linking, duplication, and multiplication of places ...
... linking this world with the world beyond. The pilgrims India is a vividly imagined landscape that has been created not by homing in on the singular importance of one place, but by the linking, duplication, and multiplication of places ...
الصفحة 4
... linked not by the power of kings and governments, but by the footsteps ofpilgrims. This narrative way of construing the land is germane, however, to understanding the communities of emotion and ritual practice that give power and depth ...
... linked not by the power of kings and governments, but by the footsteps ofpilgrims. This narrative way of construing the land is germane, however, to understanding the communities of emotion and ritual practice that give power and depth ...
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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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