The role of the visual is essential to Hindu tradition and culture, but many attempts to understand India's divine images have been laden with misperceptions. Darsan, a Sanskrit word that means "seeing," is an aid to our vision, a book of ideas to help us read, think, and look at Hindu images with [...]
This is the acclaimed study and interpretation of Banaras, the holy place of the Hindus.
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. [...]
A spiritual history of the world's most religiously complex and diverse society, from one of Harvard's most respected scholars.
"India: A Sacred Geography" is the culmination of more than a decade's work from the renowned Harvard scholar Diana L. Eck. The book explores the sacred places of India[...]
Diana Eck skildrar på ett både lättillgängligt, fördomsfritt och pregnant sätt en kultur som, trots att den lätt undandrar sig vår förståelse, alltjämt är tillgänglig för våra blickar.
Författaren söker inringa en mångfasetterad religiös tradition, [...]