This book is a richly illustrated guide to India's spiritual legacy, providing inspiring background reading for the real or armchair traveller. It describes the main themes in the Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and other spiritual traditions of India, and explores their points of contact with Western fascination.
Features:
- Includes more than 250 illustrations, showing superb art, artefacts and architecture, as well as documentary photographs past and present
- Explains key aspects of belief from both historical and present-day perspectives
- Analyses important ideas and practices that have entered the spiritual vocabulary of the West - including yoga, karma, meditation, Tantra and enlightenment
- Concludes with a reference section, with a guide to meditation techniques as well as a gazetteer of sacred pilgrimages and a glossary of specialist terms
