Mountain temples & temple mountains : architecture, religion, and nature in the central Himalayas /

Mountain temples & temple mountains : architecture, religion, and nature in the central Himalayas /

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Author / Creator:	Chanchani, Nachiket, author.
Imprint:	Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2019.
Description:	xiii, 268 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 26 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Global South Asia Global South Asia.
Subject:	Hindu temples -- India, North. Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages -- India, North. Cultural landscapes -- India, North. Hindu temples -- Himalaya Mountains Region. Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Himalaya Mountains Region. Cultural landscapes -- Himalaya Mountains Region. Cultural landscapes. Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages. Hindu temples. India, North -- Religious life and customs. Himalaya Mountains Region -- Religious life and customs. Himalaya Mountains Region. North India.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11950473

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Varying Form of Title:	Mountain temples and temple mountains
ISBN:	9780295744513 0295744510
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-255) and index.
Summary:	"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." -- Publisher's description
Other form:	Online version: Chanchani, Nachiket. Mountain temples and temple mountains. Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2019 9780295744520

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