Sacred Landscape of the Himalaya: Proceedings of an International Conference at Heidelberg 25-27 May 1998

by Niels Gutschow

Where the mountains can be gods it seems obvious to talk about the sacredness of landscape: The proceedings of an international seminar at Heidelberg in May 1998 present nine case studies covering the entire range of the Himalaya, from Ladakh and Garhwal in India, to Humla and Mustang in Nepal as well as Bhutan. The focus is on space-related architectural and/or anthropological analysis of the built environment and its location in landscape - a term...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3700131097
• ISBN13: 9783700131090
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.81 lbs.