书籍介绍
A fascinating and rigorous guide to deciphering Hindu symbolism, this book will help you understand and appreciate religious art in India. Despite its scholarly paraphernalia and language, the book (whose title translates as "seeing") is tremendously useful for the traveler. It's an eye-opening book for the intellectually curious. With a useful glossary and some not-very-good photographs.
"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. Darśan, 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."—Religious Studies Review
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好書，研究印度宗教iconography, art and architecture必讀。不了解印度（教）的宗教文化，將無以了解藏傳（或漢傳）佛教文化，特別是儀式背後的文化意義。
very basic
宗教与视觉的关系在印度教里有很多体现。三大主神眼睛大睁，时刻准备跟朝拜者对视，以为后者实现宗教参与和宗教体验。相比较，同样来自印度的佛教好像更内敛一些，不从感官刺激着手，似乎更讲究精神修行。P.S. darśan的方法论意义或许可以拓展至宗教之外，如对商业和商品的分析。
文笔真好
这小书咋就没人翻译呢...了解一下多好！
语言非常易懂，讲了很多仪式在建造佛像或者寺庙的过程和意义，包括说到了monotheism, 多个神并没有减少每个神的意义。 Eck这本书写的非常紧凑易懂，一共就100页左右。主要讲了印度去看佛像也是被佛像注视，也就是被神注视。还讲了一些佛像的仪式为了把神请到佛像里。还有iconoclast，与西方完全不一样，毁灭重造也是传统的一部分。说到了像我们这种没有知识的人，需要学习印度的文化知识才能理解佛像。
一年级印度教课用过，大众科普级别读物。
非常好读 又很有用 买了
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