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Luminous Kashi To Vibrant Varanasi

出版	Indica Books, 2006-08
ISBN	81865695619788186569566
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=KaMmAAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Kashi/Banaras/Varanasi is a world of its own, a veritable miniIndia, unique in almost all respects. Its contradictions can be seen inits blend of spirituality and darkness, sanctity and filth, purity anddeceipt, culture and grossness.Luminous Kashi to Vibrant Varanasi presents, as no other bookhas done before, all these aspects of this paradoxical and fascinatingcity, and gives an amazing quantity of information on the city, itshistory, culture and people; its temples and tirthas, mathas andinstitutions; its scholars, some of them the best in the country; itsfestivals and lilas; its literature, music, painting and culture; its silktrade and crafts; and its typical inhabitants: sadhus, pandits, pandas,babus, rais, thugs and gundas. More than all, the book finds out,with the help of mythology and metaphysics, the essence of Kashi its luminosity and its vibrancy! It finally says: walk not in the darkalleys, plunge not in the shallows, but move into the luminosity, anddive deep into the oceans of knowledge. The Kashi you find dependson how far you walk, how deep you dive!