The author reveals the spiritual and historical resonance of this holy place where great sages such as the Buddha and Shankara taught, where ashrams, palaces, and universities were built, where God has been imagined and imaged in a thousand ways Eck describes the rites of its temples, the busy life of its riverfront, and the exuberance of its festivals she narrates how people travel from all over India to Banaras for the privilege of dying a good death here, for they believe that on the banks of the river Ganges where the atmosphere of devotion is improbable in its strength, it is possible to be released from this earthly round forever in her account of the sacred history, geography, and art of the city, its elaborate and thriving rituals, its myths and literature, and its importance to pilgrims and seekers, Diana Eck uses her wealth of scholarship to make the Hindu tradition come powerfully alive so that we come to understand the meaning that this sacred city holds for the millions of believers who have been coming here for over 2,500 years a luminous work, as befits this city of light i know of few books that capture the soul of a sacred city to the degree that this one does .

Banaras City of Light

History

Diana L. Eck

Asia

Penguin

A deeply learned, spiritual memoir by a renowned scholar of religion in encountering god diana eck shows why dialogue with people of other faiths is crucial in todays interdependent world??globally, nationally, and even locally she reveals how her own encounters with other religions have shaped and enlarged her christian faith toward a bold new christian pluralism

Encountering God

Darsan, Seeing the Divine Image in India

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 appreciation and imagination.

Columbia Univ. Pr.

Combining text, video, graphics and music, this CD-ROM maps the diverse culture of faith in America. From a Hindu temple near Boston to the nation's oldest Islamic center in Iowa, it surveys Christian, Jewish, Jain, Sikh, Buddist, Islamic, Zoroastrian, African-American, and Pagan communities.

On Common Ground: World Religions in America

This work offers a study of the physical representations of God as the central feature of Hinduism. Each of the essays explores a different topic of religion in India: bhakti, popular village procession, puja rituals, spirit possession and guru cults.

Darâsan: Seeing the Divine Image in India (Focus on Hinduism and Buddhism)

Religion & Spirituality

Hinduism

Anima Books

宗教に分裂するアメリカ

Darsan

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Motilal Banarsidass

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