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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - From the celestial Gandharvas of the Rigveda to the hidden kingdom of Shambhala, from the inner-earth civilisation of Agartha to the island paradise of Avalon - every major human civilisation has imagined a world of superior beings existing just beyond the reach of ordinary perception. In Worlds Within the World, historian and Vedic Jyotish practitioner VB Darshan maps this global mythology with the tools of comparative mythology, cultural anthropology, and religious history. Across thirty chapters and seven parts, he traces the structural grammar common to hidden world traditions worldwide, examines the textual and anthropological evidence for each tradition, and asks the questions that matter: Why does every culture produce these myths What do they reveal about human longing, ecological wisdom, and the limits of ordinary perception Readers will encounter: The Gandharvas - Vedic celestial musicians and nature-keepers - and their hidden Himalayan world Shambhala and the Beyul tradition of Tibetan Buddhism Agartha: the inner-earth civilisation and its troubled modern history Hyperborea, Avalon, Thule, El Dorado, and the Western hidden world canon Indigenous traditions from Australia, Africa, Mesoamerica, and the Pacific Modern echoes in lost continent theory, UFO mythology, and theoretical physics A Jyotish analysis of the planetary signatures associated with hidden world consciousness Written with scholarly rigour and the insight of a practicing Jyotishi, Worlds Within the World is an essential contribution to the literature of comparative mythology and the history of the human imagination.…

Etat : New. Print on Demand.

Etat : New. Print on Demand.

Paperback. Etat : new. 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 multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Etat : New. Print on Demand.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Etat : new. 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. …