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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... ancient and modern . These tirtha māhātmyas and sthala purānas tell how each place became holy and what benefits one might gain from visiting it . Looking at both pilgrimage literature and pilgrimage sites , what are some of the ways in ...
... ancient and modern . These tirtha māhātmyas and sthala purānas tell how each place became holy and what benefits one might gain from visiting it . Looking at both pilgrimage literature and pilgrimage sites , what are some of the ways in ...
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... ancient , others more recent that participate in creating a landscape knit together by its repetitions and homologies ? Throughout this book , my examples are drawn deliberately from a wide variety of sources - textual and ritual , ancient ...
... ancient , others more recent that participate in creating a landscape knit together by its repetitions and homologies ? Throughout this book , my examples are drawn deliberately from a wide variety of sources - textual and ritual , ancient ...
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... yātrā around Banāras , the five - day circumambulatory pilgrimage that takes one quite outside the congested streets of the ancient city and swings through the surrounding Tiruchendur temple , one of the six abodes of Murugan INDIA 31.
... yātrā around Banāras , the five - day circumambulatory pilgrimage that takes one quite outside the congested streets of the ancient city and swings through the surrounding Tiruchendur temple , one of the six abodes of Murugan INDIA 31.
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... ancient times , they say , the sages propiti- ated Parashurama to help rescue the land from the sea again ! There are many tellings of the tale . In most , Parashurama stood on the hills of the Western Ghats and drew back his bow ...
... ancient times , they say , the sages propiti- ated Parashurama to help rescue the land from the sea again ! There are many tellings of the tale . In most , Parashurama stood on the hills of the Western Ghats and drew back his bow ...
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... ancient Dvārāvatī is said to have been submerged again by the sea as soon as Krishna died . Not surpris- ingly , as we shall see , many other important shrines in India are linked to the disappearance of the ancient image of Krishna at ...
... ancient Dvārāvatī is said to have been submerged again by the sea as soon as Krishna died . Not surpris- ingly , as we shall see , many other important shrines in India are linked to the disappearance of the ancient image of Krishna at ...
المحتوى
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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