Building A Sacred Mountain

Author : Wei-Cheng Lin
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780295805351

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Building a Sacred Mountain by Wei-Cheng Lin Pdf

By the tenth century CE, Mount Wutai had become a major pilgrimage site within the emerging culture of a distinctively Chinese Buddhism. Famous as the abode of the bodhisattva Ma�ju r (known for his habit of riding around the mountain on a lion), the site in northeastern China�s Shanxi Province was transformed from a wild area, long believed by Daoists to be sacred, into an elaborate complex of Buddhist monasteries. In Building a Sacred Mountain, Wei-Cheng Lin traces the confluence of factors that produced this transformation and argues that monastic architecture, more than texts, icons, relics, or pilgrimages, was the key to Mount Wutai�s emergence as a sacred site. Departing from traditional architectural scholarship, Lin�s interdisciplinary approach goes beyond the analysis of forms and structures to show how the built environment can work in tandem with practices and discourses to provide a space for encountering the divine. For more information: http://arthistorypi.org/books/building-a-sacred-mountain

Author : David A. Cooper
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003426595

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Entering the Sacred Mountain by David A. Cooper Pdf

"A student of mysticism for over thirty years, David Cooper has engaged in an intense spiritual journey for the last sixteen that has led him from a secluded mountain hut in New Mexico to the Sinai Desert, from chanting Sufi dhikr and going on extended retreats with Buddhist masters to studying Kabbalah and esoteric Judaism in the Old City of Jerusalem. Abandoning his career as a political consultant in Washington, D.C., Cooper and his wife lived for eight years in the Orthodox community in Jerusalem, while spending each summer engaged in contemplative practice, particularly Buddhist Vipassana (Insight) Meditation. In the early nineties the Coopers returned to the United States to establish a small retreat facility in the mountains of Colorado. Cooper is comfortable in the spiritual language of many world traditions. Ordained as a rabbi in 1992, he continues to emphasize the universal nature of the mystical experience, which he feels is available to everyone." "Entering the Sacred Mountain is the fascinating and inspiring chronicle of Cooper's search for truth and how this has strengthened the union between his wife and himself."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : John Einarsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019237689

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The Sacred Mountains of Asia by John Einarsen Pdf

"The Sacred Mountain" is a symbol revered by people in every religious and ethnic tradition of Asia. The 29 articles contained here celebrate these sacred peaks through prose, poetry, travelogue, historical and spiritual texts, art, and photos, and will be of interest to all students of Asian culture.

Author : Wen-shing Chou
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691178646

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Mount Wutai by Wen-shing Chou Pdf

The northern Chinese mountain range of Mount Wutai has been a preeminent site of international pilgrimage for over a millennium. Home to more than one hundred temples, the entire range is considered a Buddhist paradise on earth, and has received visitors ranging from emperors to monastic and lay devotees. Mount Wutai explores how Qing Buddhist rulers and clerics from Inner Asia, including Manchus, Tibetans, and Mongols, reimagined the mountain as their own during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Wen-Shing Chou examines a wealth of original source materials in multiple languages and media--many never before published or translated—such as temple replicas, pilgrimage guides, hagiographic representations, and panoramic maps. She shows how literary, artistic, and architectural depictions of the mountain permanently transformed the site's religious landscape and redefined Inner Asia's relations with China. Chou addresses the pivotal but previously unacknowledged history of artistic and intellectual exchange between the varying religious, linguistic, and cultural traditions of the region. The reimagining of Mount Wutai was a fluid endeavor that proved central to the cosmopolitanism of the Qing Empire, and the mountain range became a unique site of shared diplomacy, trade, and religious devotion between different constituents, as well as a spiritual bridge between China and Tibet. A compelling exploration of the changing meaning and significance of one of the world's great religious sites, Mount Wutai offers an important new framework for understanding Buddhist sacred geography.

Author : Alex McKay
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004306189

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Kailas Histories by Alex McKay Pdf

Kailas Histories demonstrates how British colonial, Hindu modernist, and New Age interests synthesised historically diverse representations to construct the understanding of Tibet’s great pilgrimage centre Mount Kailas - and India’s Gangotri - as ancient sacred sites embodying a universal sacrality.

Author : Nachiket Chanchani
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780295744520

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Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains by Nachiket Chanchani Pdf

From approximately the third century BCE through the thirteenth century CE, the remote mountainous landscape around the glacial sources of the Ganga (Ganges) River in the Central Himalayas in northern India was transformed into a region encoded with deep meaning, one approached by millions of Hindus as a primary locus of pilgrimage. Nachiket Chanchani’s innovative study explores scores of stone edifices and steles that were erected in this landscape. Through their forms, locations, interactions with the natural environment, and sociopolitical context, these lithic ensembles evoked legendary worlds, embedded historical memories in the topography, changed the mountain range’s appearance, and shifted its semiotic effect. Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains also alters our understanding of the transmission of architectural knowledge and provides new evidence of how an enduring idea of India emerged in the subcontinent. Art History Publication Initiative. For more information, visit http://arthistorypi.org/books/mountain-temples-and-temple-mountains

Author : John Snelling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 8120831527

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The Sacred Mountain by John Snelling Pdf

(4) Truth of the path leading to the annihilation of suffering.

Author : Alan Hammond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : California
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063268416

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To Climb a Sacred Mountain by Alan Hammond Pdf

Author : J. T. Headley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Mountains
ISBN : UVA:X030800719

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The Sacred Mountains by J. T. Headley Pdf

Author : Will Johnson
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0892811935

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The Sailfish and the Sacred Mountain by Will Johnson Pdf

"The Sailfish and the Sacred Mountain" presents a unique view into how we can create the circumstances that invite profound spiritual awakenings to occur in our lives. Part spiritual travelogue, part personal memoir, Will Johnson reflects on his own life passages, and tells the story of the remarkable journey with his son to Mount Kailas--a journey that proves to be a moment of passage for both father and son.

Author : Michael Berman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 190695822X

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Sacred Mountains by Michael Berman Pdf

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. Friedrich Nietzsche What mountains mean to me: in one word, awe-inspiring. Although we can measure them, our minds are incapable of actually grasping the very small or the very large things in nature: neither atomic particles nor astronomical distances. How big is a mountain, how much does it weigh? Our limited minds can only cope with subjective assessments such as how difficult is it to climb, how dangerous would an avalanche be? So the feelings it produces are awe, a little fear, and possibly exhilaration if and when we think that we have conquered the mountain - but in reality we never can. Professor David Hunt All the stories presented in this collection contain shamanic elements, so the obvious starting point is to explain what is meant by this. The term 'shaman' is a controversial one. Initially employed by early anthropologists to refer to a specific category of magical practitioners from Siberia, the term is now widely used to denote similar practitioners from a variety of cultures around the world. This application of an originally culture-specific term to a more general usage has caused problems with regard to definition, with disagreements among scholars over whether certain features, such as soul flight or possession, or certain types of altered states of consciousness, should or should not be listed among the core characteristics of shamanism (Wilby, 2011, p.252). Introduction What are Mountains for you? Soul Captivation on White Bone Mountain The Magic Brush and the Golden Mountain The Legend of Amirani The Story of Jumping Mouse The Children of Hamelin: A Shamanic Journey into Mount Poppenberg The Crystal Clear Waters of Mount Elbruz The Vision Quest, Mount Sinai, and a Dream Fulfilled Mount Ararat Mount Koya-san, the Hermit's Cave, and Fujiyama Sacred Towers The Fool on the Hill and the Book of Mysteries The Tobacco of Harisaboqued The Princess of the Tower Appendix: The Baal Shem Tov - Rabbi, Religious Formulator or Shaman?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780190874988

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The Oxford Handbook of Religious Space by Anonim Pdf

"How do we understand religious spaces? What is their role or function within specific religious traditions or with respect to religious experience? This handbook brings together thirty-seven authors addressing these questions, using a range of methods to analyze specific spaces or types of spaces around the world and across time. Their methods are grounded in many disciplines: religious studies and religion, anthropology, archaeology, architectural history and architecture, cultural and religious history, sociology, gender and women's studies, geography, and political science, resulting in a distinctly interdisciplinary collection. These essays are snapshots, each offering a specific way to think about the religious space(s) under consideration: Roman shrines, Jewish synagogues, Christian churches, Muslim and Catholic shrines, indigenous spaces in Central America and East Africa, cemeteries, memorials, and others. They are organized here by geographical region rather than tradition, to emphasized the cultural roots of religion and religious spaces. Several overarching principles emerge from these snapshots. The authors demonstrate that religious spaces are simultaneously individual and collective, personal, and social; that they are influenced by culture, tradition, and immediate circumstances; and that they participate in various relationships of power. Most importantly, these essays demonstrate that religious spaces do not simply provide a convenient background for religious action but are also constituent of religious meaning and religious experience, that is, they play an active role in creating, expressing, broadcasting, maintaining, and transforming religious meaning, experience"--

Author : don lehman jr.
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781312833289

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The Rise & Fall of Southeast Asia's Empires by don lehman jr. Pdf

Author : Eric Huntington
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780295744070

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Creating the Universe by Eric Huntington Pdf

Buddhist representations of the cosmos across nearly two thousand years of history in Tibet, Nepal, and India show that cosmology is a rich language for the expression of diverse religious ideas, with cosmological thinking at the center of Buddhist thought, art, and practice. In�Creating the Universe,�Eric Huntington presents examples of visual art and architecture, primary texts, ritual ideologies, and material practices�accompanied by extensive explanatory diagrams�to reveal the immense complexity of cosmological thinking in Himalayan Buddhism. Employing comparisons across function, medium, culture, and history, he exposes cosmology as a fundamental mode of engagement with numerous aspects of religion, from preliminary lessons to the highest rituals for enlightenment. This wide-ranging work will interest scholars and students of many fields, including Buddhist studies, religious studies, art history, and area studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004419872

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The Transnational Cult of Mount Wutai by Anonim Pdf

The Transnational Cult of Mount Wutai explores the pan-East Asian significance of sacred Mount Wutai from the Northern Dynasties to the present.