Where Gods Travelled (Paperback)

Langue : anglais

Edité par Independently Published, 2026

9798184790046

Vendeur : CitiRetail, Stevenage, Royaume-UniCitiRetail

Vendeur avec une évaluation de 5 étoiles

Vendeur AbeBooks depuis 29 juin 2022

Livre broché

Etat: Neuf

EUR 40,76

EUR 43,73 expédition 
Expédition depuis Royaume-Uni vers Etats-Unis

Quantité disponible : 1 disponible

Ajouter au panier
Retours gratuits sous 30 jours

A propos de cet article

Paperback. The Hindu temple is the most portable sacred institution in human history.In 802 CE, a Khmer king climbed a hill in Cambodia and consecrated a stone Shiva linga according to Sanskrit rites carried across the ocean by Indian Brahmin priests. Three centuries later, his descendants built Angkor Wat - the largest religious monument on earth. In 1995, a community of Gujarati Hindus assembled 26,300 pieces of hand-carved limestone into a temple in a North London suburb. Both acts were expressions of the same ancient conviction: that the cosmos can be planted in any soil, and that a community without a proper temple is a community without a centre.Where Gods Travelled is the first comprehensive history of the global spread of Hindu temple traditions - tracing two great waves of sacred architecture across twelve centuries, six continents, and over forty countries.The first wave was driven by maritime empires and sacred kingship. The Chola navy carried temple culture across the Bay of Bengal. Khmer kings built heaven on earth in the jungles of Cambodia. The architects of Java raised Shiva's throne at Prambanan. Bali became the last Hindu island in an Islamic archipelago. The Brahmin courts of Thailand maintained Hindu ritual at the heart of Buddhist kingdoms.The second wave was driven by displacement and devotion. Indentured labourers in Fiji, Mauritius, Trinidad, and South Africa built temples from corrugated iron and community subscription - and their descendants rebuilt them in carved Dravidian stone. A third wave is forming now, in London, Pittsburgh, Toronto, Sydney, and Abu Dhabi, built by a professional diaspora with the resources to demand nothing less than the Agamic standard.Structured across thirty chapters, this book examines the cosmological science behind the Hindu temple - Vastu, Agama, prana pratishtha, and the Jyotish dimension that calibrates every consecration to the movement of the planets. It traces the greatest Hindu temples outside India: Angkor Wat, Prambanan, Pashupatinath, the Glass Temple of Johor Bahru, the Temple in the Sea in Trinidad, and the BAPS Akshardham complexes of New Delhi and New Jersey. It documents the living tradition - Thaipusam at Batu Caves drawing two million pilgrims, Diwali illuminating Leicester and New York, the priest shortage threatening diaspora temples worldwide, and the digital darshan revolution accelerated by the pandemic. And it looks ahead to the future of sacred geography: Europe's new temple belt, the Gulf after Abu Dhabi, and what the 22nd century's Hindu world may look like.Written by VB Darshan - historian, geopolitical analyst, and Vedic Jyotish practitioner of over two decades in the Parashari and Jaimini traditions - this is a book that reads the temple not merely as architecture but as a technology for establishing the cosmos: a machine for producing community, a statement of permanence, and the most durable cultural export in human history.From the stone-carvers of ninth-century Java to the girmitiya who built a temple in a Trinidad bay to the craftsmen raising shikharas above Abu Dhabi's desert - the gods have been travelling for twelve hundred years. This book follows them. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

N° de réf. du vendeur 9798184790046

Titre
Where Gods Travelled (Paperback)
Auteur
Vb Darsan
Éditeur
Independently Published
Année de publication
2026
État de l'article
new
Reliure
Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9798184790046

CitiRetail

Stevenage, Royaume-Uni

Vendeur avec une évaluation de 5 étoiles

Vendeur AbeBooks depuis 29 juin 2022

Frais d'expédition de Royaume-Uni vers Etats-Unis

Article7 à 14 jours ouvrés7 à 60 jours ouvrés
Premier articleEUR 43,73EUR 43,73
Les délais de livraison sont fixés par les vendeurs et varient en fonction du transporteur et du lieu. Les commandes transitant par les douanes peuvent être retardées et les acheteurs sont responsables de tous les droits ou frais associés. Les vendeurs peuvent vous contacter au sujet de frais supplémentaires afin de couvrir toute augmentation des coûts d'expédition de vos articles.

Modes de paiement

  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • American Express
  • Carte Bleue
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay

Description de la boutique

Online business

Profil professionnel du vendeur

ABC BOOKS LIMITED

10 John Street
London, Royaume-Uni WC1N 2EB