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

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ISBN-10: 0195120078

ISBN-13: 9780195120073

Edition: 1998

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 largely disappeared with the advent of Chinese colonial modernity in Tibet. In addition to the work's documentary…    
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Book details

List price: $235.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/18/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.21" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Note on Tibetan Words
Pilgrimage
Introduction
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
Epilogue
Tibetan Word List
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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