Culture-Nature Interfaces, Sacred Landscape, and Heritage: An Appraisal from Asia

The concept of “multifunctionality” of a cultural landscape can help envision landscapes that cross urban-rural divides in a sustainable and integrated way and characterized by wholeness and ecospirituality that developed in the cultural history of landscapes. That is how the idea of “wholeness” (cosmality) is transformed into “holiness” (sacrality) –evolved and represented with sacred ecology and visualized through the cosmic frames of sacredscapes, more commonly in the Asia-Pacific region–. In the era of cybernetics, it has become a global concern to understand and re-revealed the grounds of shared wisdom among various cultures. Yet, despite all the changes, the inherent roots and instinct spirits still lie in their roots.