Sacred Complex of Lumbini - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sacred Complex of Lumbini write by Gitu Girī. This book was released on 2008. Sacred Complex of Lumbini available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lumbini, the birthplace of Gautama Buddha, situated in the Rupandehi District of Nepal.
The Sacred Garden of Lumbini
The Sacred Garden of Lumbini - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sacred Garden of Lumbini write by Kai Weise. This book was released on 2013-10-29. The Sacred Garden of Lumbini available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lumbini, the Birthplace of the Lord Buddha, was inscribed on the World Heritage list in 1997. It is situated in an area commonly referred to as the 'Sacred Garden'. Archaeological remains testify to the authenticity of the place, which has become a major pilgrimage site. Nevertheless over two and a half millennia, the understanding of Lumbini has changed and different perceptions exist of what Lumbini might have been like at the birth of Lord Buddha. For the long-term safeguarding of this World Heritage site, overall understanding of the property is essential. This publication will provide a means for the various stakeholders to come to an understanding of each other's historical, religious, environmental and touristic perspectives of Lumbini.
Sacred Complex of Ruruksetra
Sacred Complex of Ruruksetra - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sacred Complex of Ruruksetra write by Ram Niwas Pandey. This book was released on 2000. Sacred Complex of Ruruksetra available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Contours of South Asian Social Anthropology
Contours of South Asian Social Anthropology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contours of South Asian Social Anthropology write by Swatahsiddha Sarkar. This book was released on 2022-04-28. Contours of South Asian Social Anthropology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents a conceptual and methodological framework to understand South Asia by engaging with the practices of sociology and social anthropology in India and Nepal. It provides a new imagination of South Asia by connecting historical, political, religious and cultural divides of the region. Drawing from the experiences of Indian and Nepali social anthropology, the book discusses the presence of Nepal studies in Indian social anthropology and vice versa. It highlights Nepal or South Asia as a subject for social anthropological research and stresses on pluriversal knowledge production through regional scholarship, dialogic social anthropology, South Asian episteme, post-Western social anthropology and the decolonisation of disciplines. In exploring the themes and problems of doing social anthropology in Nepal by Indian scholars, the book assesses the scope of developing the South Asian social anthropological worldview. It explains why social anthropological and sociological inquiry in India has failed to surpass its focus beyond the territorial limits of the nation state. The book examines the issues of methodological nationalism and social anthropological research tradition in South Asia. By using the Saidian framework of travelling theory and Bhambra’s idea of connected sociologies, it shows how social anthropology can develop disciplinary crossroads within South Asia. This book will be of interest to students, teachers and researchers of South Asian studies, anthropology, sociology, social anthropology, South Asian sociology, cultural anthropology, social psychology, area studies, cultural studies, Nepal studies and Global South studies.
Architects of Buddhist Leisure
Architects of Buddhist Leisure - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Architects of Buddhist Leisure write by Justin Thomas McDaniel. This book was released on 2018-04-30. Architects of Buddhist Leisure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Buddhism, often described as an austere religion that condemns desire, promotes denial, and idealizes the contemplative life, actually has a thriving leisure culture in Asia. Creative religious improvisations designed by Buddhists have been produced both within and outside of monasteries across the region—in Nepal, Japan, Korea, Macau, Hong Kong, Singapore, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Justin McDaniel looks at the growth of Asia’s culture of Buddhist leisure—what he calls “socially disengaged Buddhism”—through a study of architects responsible for monuments, museums, amusement parks, and other sites. In conversation with noted theorists of material and visual culture and anthropologists of art, McDaniel argues that such sites highlight the importance of public, leisure, and spectacle culture from a Buddhist perspective and illustrate how “secular” and “religious,” “public” and “private,” are in many ways false binaries. Moreover, places like Lek Wiriyaphan’s Sanctuary of Truth in Thailand, Suối Tiên Amusement Park in Saigon, and Shi Fa Zhao’s multilevel museum/ritual space/tea house in Singapore reflect a growing Buddhist ecumenism built through repetitive affective encounters instead of didactic sermons and sectarian developments. They present different Buddhist traditions, images, and aesthetic expressions as united but not uniform, collected but not concise: Together they form a gathering, not a movement. Despite the ingenuity of lay and ordained visionaries like Wiriyaphan and Zhao and their colleagues Kenzo Tange, Chan-soo Park, Tadao Ando, and others discussed in this book, creators of Buddhist leisure sites often face problems along the way. Parks and museums are complex adaptive systems that are changed and influenced by budgets, available materials, local and global economic conditions, and visitors. Architects must often compromise and settle at local optima, and no matter what they intend, their buildings will develop lives of their own. Provocative and theoretically innovative, Architects of Buddhist Leisure asks readers to question the very category of “religious” architecture. It challenges current methodological approaches in religious studies and speaks to a broad audience interested in modern art, architecture, religion, anthropology, and material culture.
