Mountain Temples And Temple Mountains

Author : Nachiket Chanchani
Publisher : Global South Asia
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Art
ISBN : 0295744510

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Mountain Temples & 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 : Nachiket Chanchani
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : Richard J. Clifford
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004387775

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The Cosmic Mountain in Canaan and the Old Testament by Richard J. Clifford Pdf

Author : Sugata Ray
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780295745381

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Climate Change and the Art of Devotion by Sugata Ray Pdf

In the enchanted world of Braj, the primary pilgrimage center in north India for worshippers of Krishna, each stone, river, and tree is considered sacred. In Climate Change and the Art of Devotion, Sugata Ray shows how this place-centered theology emerged in the wake of the Little Ice Age (ca. 1550–1850), an epoch marked by climatic catastrophes across the globe. Using the frame of geoaesthetics, he compares early modern conceptions of the environment and current assumptions about nature and culture. A groundbreaking contribution to the emerging field of eco–art history, the book examines architecture, paintings, photography, and prints created in Braj alongside theological treatises and devotional poetry to foreground seepages between the natural ecosystem and cultural production. The paintings of deified rivers, temples that emulate fragrant groves, and talismanic bleeding rocks that Ray discusses will captivate readers interested in environmental humanities and South Asian art history. Art History Publication Initiative. For more information, visit http://arthistorypi.org/books/climate-change-and-the-art-of-devotion

Author : Padma Kaimal
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295747781

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Opening Kailasanatha by Padma Kaimal Pdf

Stone figures hardened by ascetic discipline and heroic effort face north in deep shadow. There they meet the gazes of the same gods and goddesses but with gentler bodies enacting grace, warmth, seduction, and marriage, drenched in sunlight, facing south. These figures adorn the eighth-century Kailasanatha temple complex in southeastern India, built by rulers who were both warriors and ascetics, engaged in the work of this world and in spiritual quests. They designed their temple as an exuberant visual feast to sustain both modes of being. In Opening Kailasanatha, Padma Kaimal deciphers the intentions of the monument’s makers, reaching back across centuries to illuminate worldviews of the ancient Indic south. She reveals how circling the complex in a clockwise direction focuses the mind and spirit on worldly engagement; in a counterclockwise direction, on renunciation and ascetic practice. This pairing of highly charged, complementary pathways enabled devotees to grasp these counterpoised opportunities in their own listening, gazing, moving bodies. By focusing on the material form of the complex—the architecture, inscriptions, and sculptures, along with the spaces they carve out that guide light, shadow, sound, and footsteps—Kaimal offers insights that complement what surviving texts tell us about Shaiva Siddhanta ideas and practices, providing a rare opportunity to walk in the distant past.

Author : Philip L. Nicoloff
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791479292

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Sacred Kōyasan by Philip L. Nicoloff Pdf

Takes the reader on a pilgrimage to Mount Kōya, the holy Buddhist mountain in Japan.

Author : Wen-shing Chou
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,5 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 : Tom Lopez
Publisher : Climbing Guides
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0898866081

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Idaho, a Climbing Guide by Tom Lopez Pdf

* The most-referenced guidebook for Idaho climbers * Includes the trails, approaches, and access information for Idaho's peaks Whether it's a technical ascent of the great west wall of Elephants Perch or a scramble to the summit of 12,662-foot Mount Borah, here's your key to high adventure in Idaho. At each new printing, Tom Lopez has updated and expanded his encyclopedic guide to more than 800 summits. All the features that made the first edition so popular are here -- detailed route descriptions, difficulty ratings, summit heights, access information to hundreds of roads and trails, extensive sections on historyand geology, and much, much more. You won't find a more thorough guide anywhere! Learn more about climbing in Idaho by visiting the author's website:www.idahoaclimbingguide.com.

Author : Esperide Ananas,Oberto Airaudi
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Damanhur (Italy).
ISBN : 1556435770

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Damanhur by Esperide Ananas,Oberto Airaudi Pdf

"A large format book of photographs of the art and architecture--temples filled with murals, sculpture, mosaic, and stained glass--built by devoted members of the Alps communal village of Damanhur. Text describes the development of a contemporary utopian society practicing spirituality inclusive of all world cultures"--Provided by publisher.

Author : David Rolph Seely,Jeffrey R. Chadwick,Matthew J. Grey
Publisher : Deseret Book
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Bible
ISBN : 1609075811

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Ascending the Mountain of the Lord by David Rolph Seely,Jeffrey R. Chadwick,Matthew J. Grey Pdf

This year's Sperry Symposium discusses ascending into the Lord's mountain within the context of theophany, ancient temple worship, sacred space, sacrifice, offerings, and hymns and songs in the text of the Old Testament and the Book of Mormon.

Author : Martin Collcutt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684172177

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Five Mountains by Martin Collcutt Pdf

This work provides an in-depth history of the Rinzai Zen monastic institution in Medieval Japan. Contents include chapters on Japanese zen pioneers and their patrons; Chinese émigré monks and Japanese warrior rullers; the gozan system; Zen monastic life and rules; the monastery and its subtemples; and the Zen monastic economy. Includes a foreword by Edwin Reischauer.

Author : The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Publisher : The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781465106162

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Daughters in My Kingdom by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Pdf

In the first meeting of the Relief Society, Sister Emma Smith said, “We are going to do something extraordinary.” She was right. The history of Relief Society is filled with examples of ordinary women who have accomplished extraordinary things as they have exercised faith in Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. Relief Society was established to help prepare daughters of God for the blessings of eternal life. The purposes of Relief Society are to increase faith and personal righteousness, strengthen families and homes, and provide relief by seeking out and helping those in need. Women fulfill these purposes as they seek, receive, and act on personal revelation in their callings and in their personal lives. This book is not a chronological history, nor is it an attempt to provide a comprehensive view of all that the Relief Society has accomplished. Instead, it provides a historical view of the grand scope of the work of the Relief Society. Through historical accounts, personal experiences, scriptures, and words of latter-day prophets and Relief Society leaders, this book teaches about the responsibilities and opportunities Latter-day Saint women are given in Heavenly Father’s plan of happiness.

Author : Truman G. Madsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010467178

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The Temple in Antiquity by Truman G. Madsen Pdf

Author : Anila De
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Hindu architecture
ISBN : 9385285432

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The Sun Temple of Konark by Anila De Pdf

Includes architectural rendering of the precincts of the temple.

Author : Ken Lawrence,Sailingstone Travel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 0998427810

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Chasing the Emerald Buddha by Ken Lawrence,Sailingstone Travel Pdf

CHASING THE EMERALD BUDDHA is a new type of travel guide which follows the path of Southeast Asia's most sacred relic. Locations include bustling Bangkok, historic Chiang Mai, tropical South Thailand, the astonishing ruins of Angkor and laid-back Luang Prabang. The book also features over 500 color photographs and over a dozen detailed maps.