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Author | : Soyoung Lee |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2018-02-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1588396533 |
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Mount Geumgang, also known as the Diamond Mountains, is perhaps the most famous and emotionally resonant site on the Korean Peninsula, a magnificent range of rocky peaks, waterfalls, and lagoons, dotted with pavilions and temples. Since ancient times, it has inspired cultural pride, spurred spiritual and artistic pilgrimages, and engendered an outpouring of creative expression. Yet since the partition of Korea in 1945 situated it in the North, Mount Geumgang has remained largely inaccessible to visitors, shrouded in legend, loss, and longing. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana} Diamond Mountains: Travel and Nostalgia in Korean Art is the first book in English to explore the pictorial representations of this grand and varied landscape. The special exhibition it accompanies, organized by Soyoung Lee, Curator in the Department of Asian Art, examines the evolution of Diamond Mountains imagery from the golden age of Korean true-view painting in the eighteenth century to the present day. Even today, when a profusion of Instagram photos can make the world’s most obscure sites and geographical oddities seem familiar, the Diamond Mountains portrayed here in album leaves, scrolls, and screens will be a revelation to many.
Author | : Tessa Morris-Suzuki |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2010-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1442205059 |
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This compelling and engaging book takes readers on a unique journey through China and North and South Korea. Tessa Morris-Suzuki travels from Harbin in the north to Busan in the south, and on to the mysterious Diamond Mountains, which lie at the heart of the Korean Peninsula's crisis. As she follows in the footsteps of a remarkable writer, artist, and feminist who traced the route a century ago—in the year when Korea became a Japanese colony—her saga reveals an unseen face of China and the two Koreas: a world of monks, missionaries, and smugglers; of royal tombs and socialist mausoleums; a world where today's ideological confrontations are infused with myth and memory. Northeast Asia is poised at a moment of profound change as the rise of China is transforming the global order and tensions run high on the Korean Peninsula, the last Cold War divide. Probing the deep past of this region, To the Diamond Mountains offers a new and unexpected perspective on its present and future.
Author | : Scott Carney |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2015-03-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 069818629X |
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An investigative reporter explores an infamous case where an obsessive and unorthodox search for enlightenment went terribly wrong. When thirty-eight-year-old Ian Thorson died from dehydration and dysentery on a remote Arizona mountaintop in 2012, The New York Times reported the story under the headline: "Mysterious Buddhist Retreat in the Desert Ends in a Grisly Death." Scott Carney, a journalist and anthropologist who lived in India for six years, was struck by how Thorson’s death echoed other incidents that reflected the little-talked-about connection between intensive meditation and mental instability. Using these tragedies as a springboard, Carney explores how those who go to extremes to achieve divine revelations—and undertake it in illusory ways—can tangle with madness. He also delves into the unorthodox interpretation of Tibetan Buddhism that attracted Thorson and the bizarre teachings of its chief evangelists: Thorson’s wife, Lama Christie McNally, and her previous husband, Geshe Michael Roach, the supreme spiritual leader of Diamond Mountain University, where Thorson died. Carney unravels how the cultlike practices of McNally and Roach and the questionable circumstances surrounding Thorson’s death illuminate a uniquely American tendency to mix and match eastern religious traditions like LEGO pieces in a quest to reach an enlightened, perfected state, no matter the cost. Aided by Thorson’s private papers, along with cutting-edge neurological research that reveals the profound impact of intensive meditation on the brain and stories of miracles and black magic, sexualized rituals, and tantric rites from former Diamond Mountain acolytes, A Death on Diamond Mountain is a gripping work of investigative journalism that reveals how the path to enlightenment can be riddled with danger.
Author | : Stephanie Smith Diamond |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2016-02-04 |
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ISBN | : 9781519366092 |
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When Maggie has second thoughts about getting married, she thinks an exotic vacation will bring her and Thomas closer together. Thomas agrees but he isn't thrilled with her choice of a destination - Mount Kilimanjaro. Their rocky relationship becomes even more strained, however, and Maggie finds herself in an unexpected situation. Maggie hates asking for help but she finds it in the form of an unlikely stranger. Against the magnificent backdrop of the African savannah, Maggie starts to question everything she's ever thought about love, life, and where to call home.
Author | : Olympic Mountain Rescue |
Publisher | : The Mountaineers Books |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780898862065 |
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The only climbing guide devoted to Washington's Olympic National Park--now completely updated and expanded with more than thirty percent additional new material.
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Total Pages | : 646 |
Release | : 1923 |
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Author | : Wallace R. Hansen |
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Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Geology |
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A geologic review, commemorating John Wesley Powell's historic explorations among the lofty peaks and deep canyons of the Uinta Mountains.
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Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 1923 |
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Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Geology |
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Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Geology |
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