Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains: Architecture, Religion, and Nature in the Central Himalayas

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Nachiket Chanchani Padma Kaimal

Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains

Architecture, Religion, and Nature in the Central Himalayas

Nachiket Chanchani, Padma Kaimal, K. Sivaramakrishnan , Anand A. Yang

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English

University of Washington Press
01 April 2019

Oriental art; Religious subjects depicted in art; Religious buildings; Asian history; Hinduism

Series: Global South Asia

From approximately the third century BCE through the thirteenth century CE, the remote mountainous landscape around the glacial sources of the Ganga (Ganges) River in the Central Himalayas in northern India was transformed into a region encoded with deep meaning, one approached by millions of Hindus as a primary locus of pilgrimage.

Nachiket Chanchani's innovative study explores scores of stone edifices and steles that were erected in this landscape. Through their forms, locations, interactions with the natural environment, and sociopolitical context, these lithic ensembles evoked legendary worlds, embedded historical memories in the topography, changed the mountain range's appearance, and shifted its semiotic effect. Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains also alters our understanding of the transmission of architectural knowledge and provides new evidence of how an enduring idea of India emerged in the subcontinent.

Art History Publication Initiative. For more information, visit http://arthistorypi.org/books/mountain-temples-and-temple-mountains

By: Nachiket Chanchani
Series edited by: Padma Kaimal, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm,
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9780295744513
ISBN 10: 0295744510
Series: Global South Asia
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 01 April 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Nachiket Chanchani is associate professor in the Department of the History of Art and the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Reviews for Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains: Architecture, Religion, and Nature in the Central Himalayas

In this beautifully illustrated and carefully researched book, Chanchani offers an innovative breakthrough study of the religion, art, architecture, and culture of the northern Ganga River and central Himalayan area. . . . This study is as pleasurable to read as it is informative. The ideas Chanchani puts forth are provocative and will interest scholars, in various disciplines, who work on the region. Nonspecialists who are curious about the region will also appreciate this work. * CHOICE * [A]n indispensable resource. * The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians * [B]eautifully written, deeply engrossing, and insightfully interdisciplinary book. * Journal of Asian Studies *