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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... centuries, including the violence that attended the partition of India into India and Pakistan and the recurrent communal violence that has erupted repeatedly in the decades since. More signifi cant, however, especially in an era in ...
... centuries, including the violence that attended the partition of India into India and Pakistan and the recurrent communal violence that has erupted repeatedly in the decades since. More signifi cant, however, especially in an era in ...
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... centuries. This idea of India had its genesis long before the Mughal Empire stretched its network of alliances across much of the subcontinent in the sixteenth century, long before the British Empire formalized a nationwide civil ...
... centuries. This idea of India had its genesis long before the Mughal Empire stretched its network of alliances across much of the subcontinent in the sixteenth century, long before the British Empire formalized a nationwide civil ...
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... centuries the understanding of India in the West has followed primarily a Western agenda, from the land called “Indika” by ... century, without ever leaving England, wrote an enormous English-language history of India, to the India of ...
... centuries the understanding of India in the West has followed primarily a Western agenda, from the land called “Indika” by ... century, without ever leaving England, wrote an enormous English-language history of India, to the India of ...
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... century ago, many British administrators followed the 1880s lead of Sir john Strachey, who would introduce his ... centuries without the need for overarching political expression or embodiment. The English word “religion” comes from the ...
... century ago, many British administrators followed the 1880s lead of Sir john Strachey, who would introduce his ... centuries without the need for overarching political expression or embodiment. The English word “religion” comes from the ...
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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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