The spirit of Asia
Subtitle: journeys to the sacred places of the East
By: photography by Michael Freeman ; text by Alistair Shearer.
Contributors: Shearer, Alistair.
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Asia -- Description and travel; Asia -- Pictorial works; Sacred space -- Asia; Sacred space -- Asia -- Pictorial works
Genres: Pictorial works.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 GUARDIANS OF THE WORLD; title: The Forces of Nature 1io; title: W aters of Life12; title: Sacred Stones16; title: The Sacred Tree18; title: The Sacred Mountain22; title: Adam's Peak, Sri Lanka 24; title: GunungAgung, Bali 26; title: Mount Kailash, Tibet 28; title: Appeasing the Owners; title: Spirit Houses, Thailand 34; title: Guardian Spirits; title: The Nats of Burma 38; title: Gateways to Other Worlds; title: Hill-tribe Shrines of Thailand 42; title: Immortal Ancestors; title: Tangyue MemorialArches, China 44; title: lmperial Tombs of; title: the Perfume River, Vietnam46; title: The Way of the Gods (Shinto)50; title: Miyajima and ise-jingu, Japan52; title: 2 THE MOTHER RELIGION OF ASIA; title: Hinduism and its Influence60; title: Varanasi, North India:; title: Holy Mother Ganges 62; title: Pashupatinath, Nepal:; title: Shiva, Lord ofAll Creatures 70; title: Nilakantha, Nepal:; title: The Lord of Creation Sleeps72; title: Tiruvannamalai, South india:; title: The Hill of Light74; title: Kanchipuram, South India: Wat Phra Kaeo, Thailand:; title: City of Sages 80 Emerald Buddha Temple150; title: Tirumala, South India:; title: Vishnu, Maintainer of the Cosmos 86 4 THE R AT EHI E; title: Angkor Wat, Cambodia: T E GR A VEHICL; title: Citadel of the God Kings 88 Mahayana Buddhism; title: Chandi Sukuh Et Chandi Ceto, Java: from the Himalayas to Japan 156; title: Sacred Sexuality 92; title: Bali, Indonesia: Borobodur, Java:; title: An Island of Balance 96 The Cosmic Mandala158; title: Shatrunjaya, North India: Angkor Thom Et Banteay Chhmar, Cambodia:; title: The Peaceful Liberators100 Buddha Kings of the Khmer164; title: Amritsar, North India: Swayambhunath, Nepal:; title: The Golden Temple of the Sikhs104 The Lotus-born Stupa168; title: Bodhnath, Nepal:; title: 3 THE PATH OF ENLIGHTENMENT The All-eeing Buddha 172; title: Samye, Tibet:; title: In the Footsteps of the Buddha olBuddhism Reaches Tibet 178; title: Tashiiunpo, Tibet:; title: Bodh Gaya, India: Seat of the Panchen Lamas 184; title: The Garden of Enlightenment112 The Jokhang, Tibet:; title: Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka: Tibet's Resilient Heart 190; title: Planting the Seed of Truth 116 Putuoshan, China:; title: Temple of the Tooth, Sri Lanka: White Lotus Island196; title: Power of the Relic120 Koya-san, Japan:; title: Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka: Return to the Source 200; title: Medieval Capital of the Faith124; title: Pagan, Burma: A Note on the Photography 206; title: Field of the Cloth of Saffron128 Glossary 207; title: Shwedagon Pagoda, Burma: Bibliography 208; title: Memorial of Gold136 Acknowledgments 208; title: Sagaing, Burma:; title: The Power of Community142; title: Si Satchanalai, Thailand:; title: King Ramkamhaeng's Citadel146.