Author: Mary Burt MesserPublisher:
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Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
East and West, as Face to Face and Side by Side
Author: Mary Burt MesserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
United States Ports on Lake Erie
Author: United States. Board of Engineers for Rivers and HarborsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
The Holy Bible in Modern English, Containing the Complete Sacred Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments
Author: Ferrar FentonMarch's Thesaurus Dictionary
Author: Francis Andrew MarchPublisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1502
Book Description
Opening Kailasanatha
Author: Padma KaimalPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295747781
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Stone figures hardened by ascetic discipline and heroic effort face north in deep shadow. There they meet the gazes of the same gods and goddesses but with gentler bodies enacting grace, warmth, seduction, and marriage, drenched in sunlight, facing south. These figures adorn the eighth-century Kailasanatha temple complex in southeastern India, built by rulers who were both warriors and ascetics, engaged in the work of this world and in spiritual quests. They designed their temple as an exuberant visual feast to sustain both modes of being. In Opening Kailasanatha, Padma Kaimal deciphers the intentions of the monument’s makers, reaching back across centuries to illuminate worldviews of the ancient Indic south. She reveals how circling the complex in a clockwise direction focuses the mind and spirit on worldly engagement; in a counterclockwise direction, on renunciation and ascetic practice. This pairing of highly charged, complementary pathways enabled devotees to grasp these counterpoised opportunities in their own listening, gazing, moving bodies. By focusing on the material form of the complex—the architecture, inscriptions, and sculptures, along with the spaces they carve out that guide light, shadow, sound, and footsteps—Kaimal offers insights that complement what surviving texts tell us about Shaiva Siddhanta ideas and practices, providing a rare opportunity to walk in the distant past.
Bulletin
Author: House documents
Author: Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army
Author: United States. Army. Corps of EngineersPublisher:
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Includes the Report of the Mississippi River Commission, 1881-19 .
Eastern Turkey
Author: T.A. SinclairPublisher: Pindar Press
ISBN: 0907132340
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
In this third volume the regions covered are to the south and east of the Taurus range, beginning with the Upper and Lower Euphrates, which includes the Byzantine and Turkish buildings of Harput, Malatya and the Keban region, where there are also a number of churches and monastic sites. The following section, on the Tigris region, runs from the Taurus to the Tur 'Abdin, a historic centre of Syrian monasticism. In Diyarbakr and Mardin there are many important Christian and Islamic monuments. This was the centre of the medieval Artukid kingdom.
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