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.
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Название: Bird migration across the himalayas ISBN: 1107114713 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107114715 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14731.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This is the first reference work on migratory birds in the Himalayan region. Demonstrating satellite telemetry data on the bird`s exact migratory paths, illustrating the different strategies used to cope with an extremely high mountain barrier, the authors also discuss appropriate measures for the long-term survival of this unique migration system.
Автор: Gupta Название: Healing Traditions of the Northwestern Himalayas ISBN: 8132219244 ISBN-13(EAN): 9788132219248 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 6986.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book discusses the perception of disease, healing concepts and the evolution of traditional systems of healing in the Himalayas of Himachal Pradesh, India.
Описание: A ""Kriya Yogi's Kundalini Awakening in the Himalayas"" offers readers a deep trek not only to the Himalayas but to an extraordinary woman's spiritual awakening. Her initial aspiration to learn mountaineering had turned into a spiritual quest to attain enlightenment. She began reading books on quantum physics and metaphysics, and found no answers, before eventually stumbling upon Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), where she learned that the path of Kriya Yoga had been given to humanity to realize our immortality through self-realization and the evolution of consciousness and got initiated into this science by Baba Paramahamsa Hariharananda Giri, a direct disciple of Sri Yukteshwar and a peer to Yogananda. She experienced her final Awakening. where she became ONE with the Universe at the cave of Mahavatar Babaji that Yogananda cites in his book. She took the treacherous Siddhartha Road to Awakening that spanned over 25 years of her various spiritual practices
Название: Democratisation in the himalayas ISBN: 1138244287 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138244283 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 24499.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Democratisation is a formidable task in the Himalayan region owing to its immense cultural heterogeneity. The process of democratisation has accentuated ethnic competition, assertion of identity, and demand for ethnic homelands to protect, safeguard, and promote political and development interests of various groups.
This volume discusses competing interests; identity politics that permeates political formations, the transformations in the traditional forms of governance and their adaption to democratic institutions; the genesis and periodic eruptions of ethnic assertions, and attempts to resolve ethnic conflict. It shows how recent efforts at deepening democratic values and implementing social justice have been resisted and contested. The book argues that the play of ethnicity, the creation of political parties and interest groups, the emergence of social movements, and the voice of protest and opposition do not indicate a crisis in democracy but comprise the instruments by which the state is pushed towards reform, welfare, and inclusive politics, and is obliged to listen to the people.
Rich in ethnographic research, this volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of social and political anthropology, political studies, South Asian studies, Nepal and Himalayan studies, sociology, and development studies.
Описание: This book showcases how the eco-geological creativity of the earth is integrally woven into the landforms, cultures, and cosmovisions of modern Himalayan communities, featuring case studies from Bhutan, Assam, Sikkim, Tibet, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sino-Indian borderlands.
Автор: Tshewang Ugyen, Tobias Michael Charles, Morrison Jane Gray Название: Bhutan: Conservation and Environmental Protection in the Himalayas ISBN: 3030578232 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030578237 Издательство: Springer Цена: 22359.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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FOREWORD by Dr Lotay Tshering, Prime Minister, Royal Government of Bhutan
PREFACE byH.E. Lyonpo Yeshey Penjore, Honourable Minister for Agriculture and Forest, Royal Government of Bhutan
CHAPTER 1: STATE OF ENVIRONMENT IN BHUTAN
Abstract 1
Overview of Bhutan 1
Ecological Zones & Climatic Features 4
Land Use in Bhutan 5
Source: FRMD/DOFPS 10
Conservation Efforts & Protected Area Systems 10
Conservation Laws and Policies 13
Assessment of Non-Protected Areas 14
Sustainable Forest Management Plans in Non-protected Area 15
Scientific Forest Management 16
Community Forest Empowerment 16
Non-Wood Forest Product (NWFP) Management 17
Plantation and Reforestation Programs 18
Keystone species and Conservation Areas 18
Foot Notes 18
Annexure 1.1 Classification and Characteristics of Vegetation Zones in Bhutan (Grierson & Long, 1983, see 19) 22
Annexure 1.2 Description of Classification of Land Cover Class and Sub-Class in Bhutan (See 20) 25
CHAPTER 2: DRIVERS AND PRESSURE ON THE STATE OF ENVIRONMENT IN BHUTAN
