Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains : Architecture, Religion, and Nature in the Central Himalayas / Nachiket Chanchani [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chanchani, Nachiket, author.

Series:

Global South Asia.

Global South Asia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural landscapes.

Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages.

Hindu temples.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 268 Seiten) : Illustrationen

Place of Publication:

Seattle, WA : University of Washington Press, [2019]

Summary:

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

Contents:

Headed to the Himalayas

Gateways and guardians

Śaiva ascetics and kings in a flaming forest

Great temples and little kingdoms along the Vishnu Ganga River

New seekers and settlers

Conclusion

Appendix: Temple sites in India's central Himalayas.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295744520

0295744529

OCLC:

1029769774