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The cult of Pure Crystal Mountain : popular pilgrimage and visionary landscape in southeast Tibet / Toni Huber.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, Tibetan Series: OUP E-BooksPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 297 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585294917
  • 9780585294919
  • 9786610471393
  • 6610471398
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cult of Pure Crystal Mountain.DDC classification:
  • 294.3/923/09515 21
LOC classification:
  • BL1945.T5 H83 1998eb
Other classification:
  • B947. 275
  • BE 8154
  • RR 69962
  • RR 69814
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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Text in English and a word list in Tibetan.

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.

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