Banaras: City of Light - Softcover

Eck, Diana L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0231114478 ISBN 13: 9780231114479

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1998

Synopsis

Banaras This is the acclaimed study and interpretation of Banaras, the holy place of the Hindus. Full description

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Review:

A major event among studies of India.--John Stratton Hawley "Asia "

In Banaras, Diana Eck... has written a notable book about this greatest of Indian pilgrimage sites.... Her brilliant, comprehensive book seems likely to remain for a long time the definitive work on this great Indian city.--Washington Post

The most beautiful book... on India.--Journal of the American Academy of Religion

Eck is a master of tone here. She begins as dry scholar, allows her personal voice to emerge and then, through judicious use of lyric quotations, advances to a striking level of exaltation and triumph.... To take us gently off this high, Eck buttresses us-and her arguments-with a truly amazing display of addenda; glossaries, calendars and appendices. One ends filled with admiration and awe, not just for the vision given us, but for the scholarship and dedication that made it possible.--Los Angeles Times

About the Author:

Diana L. Eck is professor of comparative religion and Indian studies and director of The Pluralism Project at Harvard University. She is the author of many books, including Dar'san: Seeing the Divine Image in India and the editor of On Common Ground: World Religions in America, a multimedia CD-ROM, both published by Columbia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0231114478
• ISBN 13: 9780231114479
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 454