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Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains: Architecture, Religion, and Nature in the Central Himalayas
AuthorNachiket Chanchani
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SeriesGlobal South Asia
SubjectArt history, architecture, nature, anthropology
PublisherUniversity of Washington Press
Publication date
April 2019
Media typePrint (Hardback)
Pages288
ISBN978-0295744513
OCLC1111898011
Dewey Decimal
294.5/350954
LC Class2018012494

Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains: Architecture, Religion, and Nature in the Central Himalayas is a 2019 book by art historian Nachiket Chanchani, associate professor at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, that provides a complete historical survey of temple architecture in the Indian state of Uttarakhand (also known as Devabhumi, Sanskrit for "Land of the Gods"), and explores how the Central Himalaya region, home to many pilgrimage sites, came to acquire immense religious significance for Hindus. It is the first complete art historical and architectural survey of the under-studied region.

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