Summary
Diana Eck: India
The book India: A Sacred Geography tells us about the India of the pilgrims. Diana Eck takes the reader on an incredible spiritual journey through the living landscape of this magical land – its mountains, rivers and coasts, its ancient and interesting temples and shrines. In order to fully understand the sacred places of pilgrimage along with their stories and interrelationships, she explores Hindu religious ideas and stories in detail and reveals to us how they are written into the landscape itself. Eck shows us that from this network of places of pilgrimage arose the very feeling of the Indian nation. It is a stunning and interesting picture of a country that for centuries has been united not by the power of kings, but by the steps of pilgrims.
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