Cult of Pure Crystal Mountain Popular Pilgrimage and Visionary Landscape in Southeast Tibet

Name: Cult of Pure Crystal Mountain Popular Pilgrimage and Visionary Landscape in Southeast Tibet
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ISBN: 9780585294919

ISBN-10: 0585294917

ISBN-13: 9780585294919

Edition: N/A

Authors: Toni Huber

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The Tibetan district of Tsari with its sacred snow-covered peak of Pure Crystal Mountain has long been a place of symbolic and ritual significance for Tibetan peoples. In this book, Toni Huber provides the first thorough study of a major Tibetan Buddhist pilgrimage center and cult mountain, and explores the esoteric and popular traditions of ritual there. The main focus is on the period of the 1940s and '50s, just prior to the 1959 Lhasa uprising and subsequent Tibetan diaspora into South Asia. Huber's work thus documents Tibetan life patterns and cultural traditions which have largelydisappeared with the advent of Chinese colonial modernity in Tibet. In addition to the work's documentary…

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List price: $65.00
Publisher: Ebsco Publishing
Binding: E-Book
Language: English