Motilal Banarsidass
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The Sacred Mountain: The Complete Guide to Tibet’s Mount Kailas
The Sacred Mountain: The Complete Guide to Tibet’s Mount Kailas
Mount Kailas-the most sacred mountain in the world. Uncannily symmetrical, this remote and remarkable peak located in the forbidden land of Tibet might have been built by superhuman hands. It stands out of a primordial hands. It stands out of a primordial landscape: a horizontally stratified plinth thousands of feet high, crowned with a perfect cone of pure snow.
To Hindus it is the Throne of the great god Shiva. Buddhists associate it with Chakrasamvara, a powerful Tantric deity, and with the sage Milarepa, who fought a magic duel there with a shaman priest in ancient times. To the Bonpo, the followers of the indigenous religion of Tibet, it is the giant crystal on which their founder, Thonpa Shenrab, descended to earth from the skies.
For more than a millennium, Buddhist, Hindu and Bonpo pilgrims have been visiting this Throne of the Gods and performing pious cirumabulation around it. John Snelling recounts their difficult and dangerous pilgrimages and analyzes the spiritual significance of Kailas-and of sacred mountains in general. He also retells the tales of the handful of Western travellers who reached Kailas between 1715 and 1949-an exclusive club of intrepid explorers, mountaineers, big game hunters and officials. Then in 1984 the Chinese authorities allowed Westerners freer access; so the tales of a new wave of contemporary travellers have in this completely revised and enlarged edition been added to those of their great precursors.
The new edition of this acclaimed travel book is particularly indispensible for all those wishing to visit Mount Kailas, for it contains a comprehensive Guide for Travellers as well as up-to-date maps. For the armchair traveller there is much to absorb and thrill too-not least the lavish array of photographs, many in colour…
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Upanishad Sangrah: (188 Upanishdon ka Sangrah)
Upanishad Sangrah:(188 Upanishdon ka Sangrah)
The publication gives an exhaustive account of the development of Sanskrit literature in a format that is concise and condensed. It encompasses a broad study of many forms of literature, including the Vedas, Epics, Puranas, Classics, and Philosophy. It gives insight on the life and philosophy of Ancient and Medieval India as reflected in the literary products of those times in India’s history. [Citation needed] It offers knowledge that is not only fascinating but also instructional, and it does so via the short epitome that is provided in the appendix on technical literature, which includes law, science, and the arts. The bibliographical notes and index that are given at the very end contribute to the worth of the work and make it as helpful as possible to the reader. Even in this day and age of highly developed history, when even the exceptional investigations of prominent antiquarians have become obsolete, the usefulness of this relatively short piece of work has not lessened in any way despite the passage of three quarters of a century.
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Pandit Jagdish Shastri
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