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 ...
The experience of the divine in India merges the three components of sights, performance and sound. One in a trilogy of books that include Harold G. Coward and David J. Goa's Mantra: Hearing the Divine in India and America and Susan L. Schwartz's Rasa: Performing the Divine in India. Darsan presents an introduction to the use of sight--Darsan--in the practice of Indian religion. The role of the visual image is essential to Hindu tradition and culture, but many ...