Kashi Vishwanath
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh · dedicated to ShivaShiva as Vishveshvara in the city of light, where the tradition holds that to die is to be liberated.
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- The City of Light Treatise
Kashi, Varanasi, Banaras: the one city Hindus travel to in order to die, and the whole of Sanatana Dharma folded into one walkable ground. A 23-chapter treatise on…
- The Twelve Jyotirlingas Temples
A jyotirlinga (jyotis, light, plus linga, the aniconic emblem of Shiva) is a linga of light, held by the tradition to be svayambhu, self-manifest, rather than…