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This is the acclaimed study and interpretation of Banaras, the holy place of the Hindus.
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"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"
"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
A major event among studies of India.--John Stratton Hawley "Asia "
About the Author:
"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
"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"
"A major event among studies of India." -- John Stratton Hawley, "Asia"
"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"
A major event among studies of India.--John Stratton Hawley "Asia "
A major event among studies of India.
--John Stratton Hawley "Asia "A major event among studies of India.--John Stratton Hawley "Asia "
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.
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- PublisherLaw Book Co of Australasia
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 0710094302
- ISBN 13 9780710094308
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages444
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