The Sacred Mountains

Author : John Einarsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sacred Mountains of Asia written by John Einarsen and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Flynn Johnson
Publisher : Findhorn Press
ISBN 13 : 1844094804
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journey to the Sacred Mountains written by Flynn Johnson and published by Findhorn Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Edward Bernbaum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108834744
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Mountains of the World written by Edward Bernbaum and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating exploration of the symbolism of mountains in the mythologies, religions, literature, and art of cultures around the world.

Author : Robert A. F. Thurman
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Circling the Sacred Mountain written by Robert A. F. Thurman and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1999 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Donald K. Swearer
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Mountains of Northern Thailand and Their Legends written by Donald K. Swearer and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : William Edgar Gell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317845803
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred 5 Of China written by William Edgar Gell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Thomas A. Reuter
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824862104
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Custodians of the Sacred Mountains written by Thomas A. Reuter and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : William Dalrymple
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307948927
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Holy Mountain written by William Dalrymple and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cuchama and Sacred Mountains written by Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Russell Johnson
Publisher : Park Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9780892818471
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tibet's Sacred Mountain written by Russell Johnson and published by Park Street Press. This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • The record of a spiritual journey through an extraordinary land, and of the devoted pilgrims who seek to climb Mount Kailas. • Two Americans recount their experiences during the sacred pilgrimage to one of the most remote places on Earth. • With more than 100 color photographs that capture the awe-inspiring landscape and the tireless determination of the pilgrims. In a remote corner of western Tibet, in one of the highest, most pristine places on Earth, rises a sublime snow-clad pyramid of rock and snow--Mount Kailas. To Hindu and Buddhist pilgrims this 22,028-foot mountain is the throne of the gods, the "Navel of the Earth," the place where the divine takes earthly form. For more than a thousand years these pilgrims have journeyed here to pay homage to the mountain's mystery, circumambulating it in an ancient ritual of devotion that continues to the present day. Spinning prayer wheels, chanting mantras, and prostrating themselves at shrines, the pilgrims make the arduous climb toward the physical and emotional high point of the journey, the lofty pass known as the Dolma La. With spectacular color photography and vivid travel writing, Tibet's Sacred Mountain provides a stunning account of this awe-inspiring landscape, and of the variety, vitality, and sheer determination of the pilgrims who venture there. Both photographer Russell Johnson and writer Kerry Moran have made the difficult pilgrimage around the mountain several times. Tibet's Sacred Mountain is the record of their inspiring journey that opens a window on a magical land of pure light and dazzling color where the temporal and the eternal unite and where every feature of the landscape holds its own divinity.