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Author : Edward Bernbaum,Edwin Bernbaum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108834742
A fascinating exploration of the symbolism of mountains in the mythologies, religions, literature, and art of cultures around the world.
Author : Flynn Johnson
Publisher : Findhorn Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781844094806
This book explores in depth the wisdom and fierce beauty of an ancient Sioux story, which teaches the value of setting out on a quest in the natural world in order to discover who and what one truly is. What unfolds, in a dramatic and inspiring way, is a vision of the elements intrinsic to the pathless path toward freeing oneself from constraining beliefs and conditioning in order to awaken to the wonder and mystery of pure presence before the soul of the world.
Author : John Einarsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019237689
"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 : John Snelling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 8120831527
(4) Truth of the path leading to the annihilation of suffering.
Author : Robert A. F. Thurman,Tad Wise
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X004296376
Chronicling the inner as well as the outer journey, an influential author offers his personal view of his spiritual adventure amid the breathtaking vistas of the Himalayas.
Author : William Edgar Gell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317845805
First published in 2007. Geil argues in this book that five is a number most remarkable to the man of the Central Kingdom. Crafted to the rule of fifths, the author discusses aspects of the world, mountains and religion which lead to the analysis of five. These include the ascent of five key figures: Tai Shan, Nan Yo, Sung Shan, Hua Shan and Heng Shan. This title includes illustrations throughout with a comprehensive index.
Author : Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Religion
ISBN : IND:39000005691311
W. Y. Evans-Wentz, great Buddhist scholar and translator of such now familiar works as the Tibetan Book of the Dead and the Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, spent his final years in California. There, in the shadow of Cuchama, one of the Earth's holiest mountains, he began to explore the astonishing parallels between the spiritual teaching of America's native peoples and that of the deeply mystical Hindus and Tibetans. Cuchama and Sacred Mountains, a book completed shortly before his death in 1965, is the fruit of those explorations. To Cuchama, "Exalted High Place," came the young Cochimi and Yuma boys for initiation into the mystic rites for their people. In solitude they sought and received guidance and wisdom. In this same way, the peoples of ancient Greece, the Hebrews, the early Christians, and the Hindus had found access to inner truth on their own holy mountains: and in this same way must the modern person find the path to inner knowing. Surveying many of the most Sacred Mountains in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia, Evans-Wentz expresses the belief that the secret power of these high places has not passed away but only awaits the coming of a New Age. This new age, in accord with the oldest prophecies of our continent, will be a time of renaissance, the long-waited era of harmony and peace among all peoples. This renaissance shall be uniquely American, a renewal based on the values so long honored by the Americans before Columbus, and so ruthlessly trampled by the "civilized" Europeans who overran them. No other race of people has been as spiritual in their way of life than the original Americans, notes Evans-Wentz. Perhaps none other has known such martyrdom. Yet the secret greatness of the Indian religion still lives, ancient as the Earth itself, yet ageless in its power to renew.
Author : Thomas A. Reuter
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824862107
Custodians of the Sacred Mountains is the first comprehensive ethnography of the Bali Aga, a large ethnic minority that occupies the island's central highlands. The Bali Aga are popularly viewed as the indigenous counterparts to other Balinese who trace their origin to invaders from the Javanese kingdom of Majapait, who have ruled Bali from the fourteenth century A.D. Although Bali remains one of the most intensely researched localities in the world, the Bali Aga have long been overshadowed by the more exotic courtly culture of the south. A closer analysis of the changing position of the Bali Aga within Balinese society provides a key to understanding the politics and social process of cultural representation in Bali and beyond. The process is marked by a blend of representational competition and cooperation among the Bali Aga themselves, among the Bali Aga and southern Balinese, and later among the island's aristocratic elites and foreign colonizers or scholars, and state authorities. The study of this process raises important issues about the establishment and maintenance of status and power structures at regional, national, and global levels. Custodians of the Sacred Mountains explores the marginalization of the Bali Aga in light of a critical theory of cultural representation and calls for a morally engaged approach to ethnographic research. It proposes an intersubjective and communicative model of human interaction as the foundation for understanding the relative significance of cooperation and competition in the cultural production of knowledge.
Author : Donald K. Swearer,Sommai Premchit,Phaithūn Dō̜kbūakǣo
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015061122407
The mountains of northern Thailand inspire fear and awe, respect and love, curiosity and creative imagination. Drawing on the legendary histories of three mountains in the regionDoi Ang Salung Chiang Dao, Doi Suthep, and Doi Khamthis book explores the various ways that mountains in northern Thailand are seen as sacred space, and therefore as an environment to be respected rather than exploited.
Author : J. T. Headley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Bible
ISBN : BL:A0026597847
Author : Perry F. Stone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Future life
ISBN : 0978592077
Author : J. T. Headley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Bible
ISBN : PSU:000009716995
Author : Adrian Cooper
Publisher : Rudolf Steiner Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Mountaineers
ISBN : 086315235X
In every sacred tradition, mountains are the dwelling-places of the gods and destinations of spiritual journeying.
Author : William Dalrymple
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780307948922
In the spring of A.D. 587, John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist embarked on a remarkable expedition across the entire Byzantine world, traveling from the shores of Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. Using Moschos’s writings as his guide and inspiration, the acclaimed travel writer William Dalrymple retraces the footsteps of these two monks, providing along the way a moving elegy to the slowly dying civilization of Eastern Christianity and to the people who are struggling to keep its flame alive. The result is Dalrymple’s unsurpassed masterpiece: a beautifully written travelogue, at once rich and scholarly, moving and courageous, overflowing with vivid characters and hugely topical insights into the history, spirituality and the fractured politics of the Middle East.
Author : Johan Reinhard,María Constanza Ceruti
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Andes
ISBN : UCSD:31822038164984
The Incas carried out some of the most dramatic ceremonies known to us from ancient times. Groups of people walked hundreds of miles across arid and mountainous terrain to perform them on mountains over 6,096 m (20,000 feet) high. The most important offerings made during these pilgrimages involved human sacrifices (capacochas). Although Spanish chroniclers wrote about these offerings and the state sponsored processions of which they were a part, their accounts were based on second-hand sources, and the only direct evidence we have of the capacocha sacrifices comes to us from archaeological excavations. Some of the most thoroughly documented of these were undertaken on high mountain summits, where the material evidence has been exceptionally well preserved. In this study we describe the results of research undertaken on Mount Llullaillaco (6,739 m/22,109 feet), which has the world's highest archaeological site. The types of ruins and artifact assemblages recovered are described and analyzed. By comparing the archaeological evidence with the chroniclers' accounts and with findings from other mountaintop sites, common patterns are demonstrated; while at the same time previously little known elements contribute to our understanding of key aspects of Inca religion. This study illustrates the importance of archaeological sites being placed within the broader context of physical and sacred features of the natural landscape.