The cult of Pure Crystal Mountain: popular pilgrimage and visionary landscape in southeast Tibet
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Beteilige Person: Huber, Toni 1956- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press 1999
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Beschreibung: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
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 297 pages)
ISBN:0585294917
9780195120073
9780585294919