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

Penguin books.India

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

David T. Hanson is known for his studies of environmental disregard. He has photographed what we might regard as visual indifference, even devastation, on the surface of the inhabited landscape, and done so with purpose far beyond the simple documenting of suburban or industrial intrusion. There was an urgency to his record of a desecration. Ironically, he has photographed this subject exquisitely. His previous books Wilderness to Wasteland (2016), Colstrip, Montana (2010) a survey of strip-mining, and Waste Land: Meditations on a Ravaged Landscape (1997) offered the testimony of an unsparing eye. As a counterpoint to what can only be described as the toxic, he has now made an extraordinary document of sacred, cherished spaces, shrines, `resting places for the spirit¿, which transcend all religious divisions and suggest a universal point of focus. Under the title The Cloud of Unknowing, derived from the expression of a medieval Christian mystic, but equally applicable to the voice of a Buddhist seer, Hanson has redressed the imbalance of corrupted space with that of profound harmony. The photographs provide the exterior descriptions of sacred sites from Indian reservations, missionary churches, the temples of the modern world and the ancient, to suggest a contemplation at an interior level that transcends geography and survives in the most unexpected corners of contemporary life.

The Cloud of Unknowing

David T. Hanson

Taverner Press

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

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.\nThe entire guide concerns darsan, a Sandkrit word that means seeing, especially seeing the divine in an image, in a person or in a set of ideas. This guide concentrates on the first two of these meanings: the divine in sculpture, temples, symbols, times, and places, and the divine in great spiritual figures throughout the history of the Hindu religious tradition. This edition adds many more striking photographs to the earlier editions.

Reference

Anima Pubns

宗教に分裂するアメリカ

Darsan

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Motilal Banarsidass

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Banaras City of Light

Encountering God

Darsan, Seeing the Divine Image in India

On Common Ground: World Religions in America

The Cloud of Unknowing

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

Darsan, Seeing the Divine Image in India

宗教に分裂するアメリカ

Darsan