Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in India

Diana L. Eck

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third edition
November, 1998
Paper, 97 pages, 30 photos
ISBN: 978-0-231-11265-9
$24.00 / £16.50

The role of the visual is essential to Hindu tradition and culture, but many attempts to understand India's divine images have been laden with misperceptions. Darsan, a Sanskrit word that means "seeing," is an aid to our vision, a book of ideas to help us read, think, and look at Hindu images with appreciation and imagination.

Related Subjects

• Asian Religion

Series

• Translations from the Asian Classics

About the Author

Diana L. Eck, professor of comparative religion and Indian studies, and director of The Pluralism Project at Harvard University, is the editor ofOn Common Ground: World Religions in America, a multimedia CD-ROM (Columbia).

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