Banaras - Softcover

Eck, Diana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0231114478 ISBN 13: 9780231114479

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1998

Synopsis

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

About this title

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.

Review:

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)

A major event among studies of India. (John Stratton Hawley Asia)

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 this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0231114478
• ISBN 13: 9780231114479
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448