By Diana L Eck
irrespective of the place one is going in India, one will discover a panorama during which mountains, rivers, forests, and villages are elaborately associated with the tales of the gods and heroes of Indian tradition. each position during this monstrous panorama has its tale, and conversely, each tale of Hindu delusion and legend has its position. Likewise, those areas are inextricably tied to 1 another—not easily some time past, yet within the present—through the neighborhood, neighborhood, and transregional practices of pilgrimage.
India: A Sacred Geography tells the tale of the pilgrim’s India. In those pages, Diana Eck takes the reader on a rare non secular trip during the residing panorama of this interesting kingdom –its mountains, rivers, and seacoasts, its historic and strong temples and shrines. looking to totally comprehend the sacred locations of pilgrimage from the floor up, with their tales, connections and layers of which means, she acutely examines Hindu non secular rules and narratives and exhibits how they've been deeply inscribed within the land itself. finally, Eck indicates us that from those networks of pilgrimage locations, India’s very experience of zone and country has emerged. this can be the impressive and interesting photo of a land associated for hundreds of years now not through the ability of kings and governments, yet via the footsteps of pilgrims.
India: A Sacred Geography bargains a different standpoint on India, either as a posh non secular tradition and as a state. according to her broad wisdom and her many many years of wide-ranging go back and forth and study, Eck's piercing insights and a sweeping snatch of background make sure that this paintings should be trendy for a few years to come.
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