Sacred India

Author : Amit Pasricha
Publisher : Constable
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10
Category : India
ISBN : 178033124X

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The Sacred India Book by Amit Pasricha Pdf

Spirituality is the shining thread that runs through every motif of the rich and complex tapestry that is India. It is not only worship in temple, mosque or church, in gurudwara or agiary, that defines the faith of Indians - it is their ordinary, everyday kind of spirituality that serves as an axis, balancing the temporal with the eternal. The Sacred India Book seizes and distils this ephemeral quality often described as 'the Spirit of India'. Amit Pasricha seeks out meditative moments and momentous ones, exalted moments and exultant ones - the eternal quality of a weathered cross overlooking a windswept beach, the ecstatically outstretched hands of Holi celebrants at Vrindavan, the quiet faith of a women as she ties a piece of coloured thread on the latticed screen of a shrine. His photographs lay before the viewer the colourful, intricate mosaic of Indian religion, spirituality, ritual and tradition: images of religious art such as the living, writhing energy of unfinished idols in a potter's shed in Kolkata; the making of religious music a Buddhists chant from atop icy mountains; the richness of religious traditions in the pristine precision of a Parsi ritual. Amit Pasricha's masterful use of the panoramic format - in unintentional but fitting consonance with the wide, encompassing nature of the sacred in India - and Bharati Motwani's insightful text make The Sacred India Book a limited edition to be preserved and treasured.

Author : Roger Housden
Publisher : Harper San Francisco
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015041302467

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Travels Through Sacred India by Roger Housden Pdf

A guide to the beliefs and practices of India. The book introduces some of India's leading saints, sadhus and gurus, while chapters of Buddhist, Sufi and Christian India demonstrate the variety and complexity of religious traditions.

Author : Diana L Eck
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780385531924

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India by Diana L Eck Pdf

A spiritual history of the world's most religiously complex and diverse society, from one of Harvard's most respected scholars. India: A Sacred Geography is the culmination of more than a decade's work from the renowned Harvard scholar Diana L. Eck. The book explores the sacred places of India, taking the reader on an extraordinary trip through the beliefs and history of this rich and profound place, as well as providing a basic introduction to Hindu religious ideas and how those ideas influence our understanding of the modern sense of "India" as a nation.

Author : Nanditha Krishna
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9788184751826

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Sacred Animals of India by Nanditha Krishna Pdf

Animals are worshipped in India in many ways: as deities—the elephant-god Ganesha and the monkey-god Hanuman; as avatars—like Vishnu’s fish, tortoise and boar forms; and as vahanas—the swan, bull, lion and tiger were all vehicles of major deities and are thus sacred by association. Some animals, like the snake, are worshipped out of fear. Birds such as the crow are associated with the abode of the dead, or the souls of ancestors, while the cow’s sanctity may derive from its economic value. There are also hero-animals, such as the vanaras, and animals which were totemic symbols of tribes that were assimilated into Vedic Hinduism. Sacred Animals of India draws on the ancient religious traditions of India—Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism—to explore the customs and practices that engendered the veneration of animals in India. This book also examines the traditions that gave animals in India protection, and is a reminder of the role of animal species in the earth’s biodiversity.

Author : William Dalrymple
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1740593669

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Sacred India by William Dalrymple Pdf

'Sacred India' explores the presence of the divine in the mundane, through breathtaking photography and the equally intriguing stories of the people involved. The birthplace of both Hinduism and Buddhism, India also boasts the world's largest Islamic population and one of the world's oldest Jewish communities. Tribal religions, Jainism and the esoterica of Zoroastrianism add to the seemingly bewildering array of faiths jostling for space. That India has mostly been able to contain the inevitable frictions is a miracle in itself.

Author : K. C. Malhotra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Forest reserves
ISBN : 8173053235

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Sacred Groves in India by K. C. Malhotra Pdf

Author : Diana L. Eck
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780385531900

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India by Diana L. Eck Pdf

A spiritual history of India provides coverage of its sacred places, its core tenets, and the historical events of specific regions while sharing a basic introduction to Hindu religious ideas and how they have influenced modern India.

Author : William Dalrymple
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781408801246

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Nine Lives by William Dalrymple Pdf

A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet - then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the violence by hand printing the best prayer flags in India. A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve herself to death. Nine people, nine lives; each one taking a different religious path, each one an unforgettable story. William Dalrymple delves deep into the heart of a nation torn between the relentless onslaught of modernity and the ancient traditions that endure to this day. LONGLISTED FOR THE BBC SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE

Author : Nanditha Krishna
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789351186915

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Sacred Plants of India by Nanditha Krishna Pdf

Plants personify the divine— The Rig Veda (X.97) Trees and plants have long been held sacred to communities the world over. In India, we have a whole variety of flora that feature in our myths, our epics, our rituals, our worship and our daily life. There is the pipal, under which the Buddha meditated on the path to enlightenment; the banyan, in whose branches hide spirits; the ashoka, in a grove of which Sita sheltered when she was Ravana’s prisoner; the tulsi, without which no Hindu house is considered complete; the bilva, with whose leaves it is possible to inadvertently worship Shiva. Before temples were constructed, trees were open-air shrines sheltering the deity, and many were symbolic of the Buddha himself. Sacred Plants of India systematically lays out the sociocultural roots of the various plants found in the Indian subcontinent, while also asserting their ecological importance to our survival. Informative, thought-provoking and meticulously researched, this book draws on mythology and botany and the ancient religious traditions of India to assemble a detailed and fascinating account of India’s flora.

Author : Vinayak Bharne,Krupali Krusche
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781443867344

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Rediscovering the Hindu Temple by Vinayak Bharne,Krupali Krusche Pdf

This volume examines the multifarious dimensions that constitute the workings of the Hindu temple as an architectural and urban built form. Eleven chapters reflect on Hindu temples from multiple standpoints - tracing their elusive evolution from wayside shrines as well as canonization into classical objects; questioning the role of treatises containing their building rules; analyzing their prescribed proportions and orders; examining their presence in, and as, larger sacred habitats and ritua...

Author : Albertina Nugteren
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047415619

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Belief, Bounty, and Beauty by Albertina Nugteren Pdf

This study is focused on the interaction of material and symbolic values ascribed to sacred trees in India and expressed in 3,000 years of ritual practice. Point of departure is the contemporary trend of mining religious narratives in order to mobilise environmental awareness.

Author : Yoginder Sikand
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0143029312

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Sacred Spaces by Yoginder Sikand Pdf

Weaving together legend, history, ethnography & reminiscences with critical insights, 'Sacred Spaces' affords us a rare glimpse of religious traditions outside the mainstream. This rich legacy could well be invaluable in promoting alternate ways of understanding religion & the notion of community identity.

Author : Raghubir Singh
Publisher : Hong Kong : Perennial Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Ganges River (India and Bangladesh)
ISBN : UOM:39015000694847

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Ganga; Sacred River of India by Raghubir Singh Pdf

Author : Eliza F. Kent
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199895472

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Sacred Groves and Local Gods by Eliza F. Kent Pdf

In recent years, India's "sacred groves," small forests or stands of trees set aside for a deity's exclusive use, have attracted the attention of NGOs, botanists, specialists in traditional medicine, and anthropologists. Environmentalists disillusioned by the failures of massive state-sponsored solutions to ecological problems have hailed them as an exemplary form of traditional community resource management. For in spite of pressures to utilize their trees for fodder, housing, and firewood, the religious taboos surrounding sacred groves have led to the conservation of pockets of abundant flora in areas otherwise denuded by deforestation. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu over seven years, Eliza F. Kent offers a compelling examination of the religious and social context in which sacred groves take on meaning for the villagers who maintain them, and shows how they have become objects of fascination and hope for Indian environmentalists. Sacred Groves and Local Gods traces a journey through Tamil Nadu, exploring how the localized meanings attached to forested shrines are changing under the impact of globalization and economic liberalization. Confounding simplistic representations of sacred groves as sites of a primitive form of nature worship, the book shows how local practices and beliefs regarding sacred groves are at once more imaginative, dynamic, and pragmatic than previously thought. Kent argues that rather than being ancient in origin, as has been asserted by other scholars, the religious beliefs, practices, and iconography found in sacred groves suggest origins in the politically de-centered eighteenth century, when the Tamil country was effectively ruled by local chieftains. She analyzes two projects undertaken by environmentalists that seek to harness the traditions surrounding sacred groves in the service of forest restoration and environmental education.

Author : Ted Lewin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1995-07-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780547562742

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Sacred River by Ted Lewin Pdf

All rivers in India are sacred, and the Ganges most of all. Every year, more than one million Hindu pilgrims journey to Benares to renew themselves in its waters. Caldecott Honor medalist Ted Lewin joined the pilgrims at the river's edge for an experience he describes as one of the most unforgettable of his life. His luminous watercolors and simple, evocative text brilliantly capture the traditions, beliefs, and colorful pageantry of the devout and their ancient city.