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Mountain Temples And Temple Mountains eBook

Architecture, Religion, And Nature In The Central Himalayas

by Nachiket Chanchani
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Publisher: University of Washington Press, April of 2019 ‧
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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.

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Mountain Temples And Temple Mountains

Architecture, Religion, And Nature In The Central Himalayas

by Nachiket Chanchani

Property Description
ISBN: 9780295744520
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date: April of 2019
Language: English
Pages: 288
Format: eBook
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Collection: Global South Asia
Categories: eBooks in English > Art > History of Art
eBooks in English > History > History of Asia
eBooks in English > Tourist Guides and Maps > Asia, Pacific and Oceania
EAN: 9780295744520
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