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 Kashi was not the center , but one of multiple centers. 2 DIANA L. ECK.
... 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 Kashi was not the center , but one of multiple centers. 2 DIANA L. ECK.
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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 moksha or mukti . Kashyām maranam muktih ...
... 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 moksha or mukti . Kashyām maranam muktih ...
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... linked this small village , its temple , and its bathing tank with Kāshi 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 Kāshi is also linked to the great ...
... linked this small village , its temple , and its bathing tank with Kāshi 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 Kāshi is also linked to the great ...
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... linking this world with the world beyond . The pilgrim's India is a vividly imag- ined landscape that has been created not by homing in on the singular importance of one place , but by the linking , duplication , and multiplica- tion of ...
... linking this world with the world beyond . The pilgrim's India is a vividly imag- ined landscape that has been created not by homing in on the singular importance of one place , but by the linking , duplication , and multiplica- tion of ...
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... linked not by the power of kings and governments , but by the footsteps of pilgrims . This narrative way of construing the land is germane , however , to understanding the communities of emotion and ritual practice that give power and ...
... linked not by the power of kings and governments , but by the footsteps of pilgrims . This narrative way of construing the land is germane , however , to understanding the communities of emotion and ritual practice that give power and ...
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WHAT IS INDIA? | 43 |
INDIA IN THE LOTUS OF THE WORLD | 107 |
THE GANGA 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 RAMAYANA ON THE LANDSCAPE OF INDIA | 399 |
CHAPTER IO A PILGRIMS INDIA TODAY | 441 |
Acknowledgments | 457 |
Glossary | 461 |
Bibliography | 475 |
Notes | 493 |
Index | 541 |
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ancient ascetic avatara Ayodhya Badrinath Banaras bathing Bhagavata Purana Bharata Brahma Braj called century culture darshan deity Delhi Devi devotion dhām dhams dharma divine Dvārakā earth epic famous forest Ganga Ghats Godavari goddess gods Govardhan Hanuman heaven hill Himalayas Hindu holy hymn Ibid island Jagannatha journey jyotirlinga Kashi Kāverī Kedarnath king Krishna Lakshmana land landscape legend linga of light linked living Lord Shiva lotus Mahabharata Mahākāla Maharashtra māhātmya Märkandeya Mathura Mela Meru Mother mountain Muslim myth Narasimha Nārāyana Narmada north India Omkareshvara Pandavas pilgrimage pilgrims pithas Pradesh praise Prayaga Rāma Rama's Rāmāyana Rameshvara Rāvana regional religious rites ritual rivers sacred geography sacrifice sage sanctum Sanskrit Sarasvati seven Shakti Shri shrine Shrirangam Simhachalam Sītā Siva Skanda Purana Somnath stone story symbolic Tamil Nadu temple tirthas Tirupati tradition Ujjain Vaishnava Vārānasī Veda Vedic village Vishnu waters whole worship Yamuna