Temple Consecration Rituals in Ancient India
Title | Temple Consecration Rituals in Ancient India PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Aleksandra Ślączka |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 429 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 900415843X |
This book is a thorough study, based on both the textual and archaeological data, of the three important temple consecration rituals of the Hindu tradition.
Temples of India: Text
Title | Temples of India: Text PDF eBook |
Author | Krishna Deva |
Publisher | |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Architecture, Hindu |
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The Temple Architecture of India
Title | The Temple Architecture of India PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Hardy |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Architecture |
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Through lucid visual analysis, accompanied by drawings, this book will allow readers to appreciate the concepts underlying designs that at first sight often seem bewilderingly intricate. The book will be divided into six parts that cover the history and development of the design and architecture of Indian temples.
The Rock-cut Temples of India
Title | The Rock-cut Temples of India PDF eBook |
Author | James Fergusson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 1864 |
Genre | Caves |
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Rediscovering the Hindu Temple
Title | Rediscovering the Hindu Temple PDF eBook |
Author | Vinayak Bharne |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2014-09-18 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1443867349 |
This volume examines the multifarious dimensions that constitute the workings of the Hindu temple as an architectural and urban built form. Eleven chapters reflect on Hindu temples from multiple standpoints - tracing their elusive evolution from wayside shrines as well as canonization into classical objects; questioning the role of treatises containing their building rules; analyzing their prescribed proportions and orders; examining their presence in, and as, larger sacred habitats and ritua...
The Temple Road Towards a Great India
Title | The Temple Road Towards a Great India PDF eBook |
Author | Marta Kudelska |
Publisher | Wydawnictwo UJ |
Pages | 580 |
Release | 2019-11-30 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 8323399867 |
This book presents an analysis of the foundations organised by the Birla family in India. Several generations were involved in the renovation and establishment of sanctuaries, temples and other sacral buildings. As a result, between 1933 and 1998, nineteen Birla Mandirs were established, mainly in northern and central India. All the temples have the capacity to surprise with their various decorative motifs, not seen in other places, which – apart from their aesthetic function – above all bear important symbolic content. Therefore, is it possible to treat the Birla Mandirs as a specific medium – the carrier of a particular message that is not only religious, but with a significance that permeates other layers of social and political discourse. This message, as the authors of the book claim, have a bearing on the socio-political thought of India – supported by the creation and propagation of ideas related to identity and a national art. It also conveys the idea of hierarchical Hindu inclusivism which, although considering all religions as equal, treats Hinduism in a unique way – seeing within it the most perfect form of religion, giving man the opportunity to learn the highest truth. The book also examines whether the temples founded by the Birla family and the religious activities undertaken therein apply the concept of “inventing” tradition, and whether traditions created (or “modernised”) in contemporary times are a way of enhancing the appeal of the message conveyed from temple to society. “The Vastness of Culture” is a series of publications presenting cultural studies and emphasizing the role of comparative research and analyses that reveal similarities, differences and intercultural influences. In our publications, cultures and civilizations are in a state of constant flux, engaging in dialogue, creating new understandings, competing for meaning under the influence of global content, without any clear boundaries, but with a vastness that forces questions to be raised.
The Cave Temples of India
Title | The Cave Temples of India PDF eBook |
Author | James Fergusson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 778 |
Release | 1880 |
Genre | Cave temples |
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