The cult of Pure Crystal Mountain: popular pilgrimage and visionary landscape in southeast Tibet
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Main Author: Huber, Toni 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 1999
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Item Description:Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Canterbury
Includes bibliographical references and index
Pilgrimage -- Tibetan pilgrimage: concepts and practice -- The cult of pilgrimage mountains in Tibet -- Representations -- Cosmodrama and architectonics of landscape -- History and prayer as map -- Ritual institutions -- A tantric environment -- Popular short pilgrimages -- Barbarian tributes and great processions -- Statecraft and status in contested territory -- Local lives -- Complex identities and local rituals -- Culture, nature, and economy around a holy mountain
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 297 pages)
ISBN:0585294917
9780195120073
9780585294919