The Four Dhamas of the Himalayas

The Four Dhamas of the Himalayas
Author: Trilochan Dash
Publisher: Soudamini Dash
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2017-07-03
Genre: Travel
ISBN:

It gives a description of Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri and Yamunetri, the four Dhamas or Sacred Places of the Himalayas.

The Modern Review

The Modern Review
Author: Ramananda Chatterjee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 778
Release: 1911
Genre: India
ISBN:

Includes section "Reviews and notices of books".

India and the Traveller

India and the Traveller
Author: Rita Banerjee
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2022-11-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9354355153

India and the Traveller: Aspects of Travelling Identity, a collection of essays on travel writings related to India, focuses on the evolving persona of travelers to India as well as Indians journeying to other lands or within India. It examines India as a space, reflected on and interrogated by others, as also people associated intrinsically with this space, who move in and out of it. The essays focus on the self-fashioning of the traveller - Buddhist pilgrims of Asia, European visitors to the Mughal court, the British colonizer, the Indian anthropologist, historian or whimsical civil servant, the wanderer seeking spiritual insight in nature, and the woman traveller with her distinct perceptions and sensitivities. Engaging with issues related to identity, this book explores the need for cultural accommodation by African and European travellers, the discovery of affinity by Asian travellers, the instability of postcolonial selves and travel as a means of negotiating complex problems of fashioning personae in literary works.

The Saga Of A Great Soul

The Saga Of A Great Soul
Author: Swami Vividishananda
Publisher: Sri Ramakrishna Math
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2023-03-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

This book is an extensive and well-researched biography of Swami Shivananda, popularly known as Mahapurush Maharaj, who was a direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna and the second president of the Ramakrishna Order. The book presents the biographical narrative of this illumined saint, blending some reminiscences and observations with his conversations and letters. Authored by Swami Vividishananda, who was the head of the Ramakrishna Vedanta Centre, Seattle, USA, the book will help the readers appreciate the exalted life and personality of Swami Shivananda.

Studies from an Eastern Home

Studies from an Eastern Home
Author: Sister Nivedita (Margaret E. Noble)
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2020-09-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1465579176

Religion and Modernity in the Himalaya

Religion and Modernity in the Himalaya
Author: Megan Adamson Sijapati
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2016-03-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1317333853

Religion has long been a powerful cultural, social, and political force in the Himalaya. Increased economic and cultural flows, growth in tourism, and new forms of governance and media, however, have brought significant changes to the religious traditions of the region in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book presents detailed case studies of lived religion in the Himalaya in this context of rapid change to offer intra-regional perspectives on the ways in which lived religions are being re-configured or re-imagined. Based on original fieldwork, this book documents understudied forms of religion in the region and presents unique perspectives on the phenomenon and experience of religion, discussing why, when, and where practices, discourses, and the category of religion itself, are engaged by varying communities in the region. It yields fruitful insights into both the religious traditions and lived human experiences of Himalayan peoples in the modern era. Presenting new research and perspectives on the Himalayan region, this book should be of interest to students and scholars of South Asian Studies, Religious Studies, and Modernity.

Mountain, Water, Rock, God

Mountain, Water, Rock, God
Author: Luke Whitmore
Publisher: University of California Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2018-11-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0520298020

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Mountain, Water, Rock, God, Luke Whitmore situates the disastrous flooding that fell on the Hindu Himalayan shrine of Kedarnath in 2013 within a broader religious and ecological context. Whitmore explores the longer story of this powerful realm of the Hindu god Shiva through a holistic theoretical perspective that integrates phenomenological and systems-based approaches to the study of religion, pilgrimage, place, and ecology. He argues that close attention to places of religious significance offers a model for thinking through connections between ritual, narrative, climate destabilization, tourism, development, and disaster, and he shows how these critical components of human life in the twenty-first century intersect in the human experience of place.

Bhakti-yoga

Bhakti-yoga
Author: Swami Vivekananda
Publisher:
Total Pages: 166
Release: 1922
Genre:
ISBN: