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Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in India Paperback - 1998

by Diana Eck


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The role of the visual is essential to Hindu tradition and culture, but many attempts to understand India's divine images have been laden with misperceptions. Darsan, a Sanskrit word that means "seeing," is an aid to our vision, a book of ideas to help us read, think, and look at Hindu images with appreciation and imagination.

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A COMMON SIGHT in India is a crowd of people gathered in the courtyard of a temple or at the doorway of a streetside shrine for the darsan of the deity.

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The role of the visual image is essential to Hindu tradition and culture, but many attempts to understand India's divine images have been laden with misperceptions. Darsan, a Sanskrit word that means "seeing", is an aid to our vision, a book of ideas to help us read, think, and look at Hindu images with appreciation and imagination.

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  • Title Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in India
  • Author Diana Eck
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 3rd
  • Pages 97
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia University Press, New York, USA
  • Date 1998-11-17
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780231112659 / 0231112653
  • Weight 0.42 lbs (0.19 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.97 x 5.98 x 0.38 in (22.78 x 15.19 x 0.97 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
    • Religious Orientation: Hindu
  • Library of Congress subjects Hinduism, Hindu symbolism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99192162
  • Dewey Decimal Code 294.5

About the author

Diana L. Eck, professor of comparative religion and Indian studies, and director of The Pluralism Project at Harvard University, is the editor of On Common Ground: World Religions in America, a multimedia CD-ROM (Columbia).
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