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Huber, Toni, 1956-

The cult of Pure Crystal Mountain : popular pilgrimage and visionary landscape in southeast Tibet / Toni Huber. - New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. - 1 online resource (xii, 297 pages) : illustrations - - OUP E-Books. .

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.


Text in English and a word list in Tibetan.

ISBN: 0585294917 9780585294919 9786610471393 6610471398

LCCN: 97035716

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Mountain worship--China--Tibet Autonomous Region.
Buddhism--Customs and practices.--China--Tibet Autonomous Region
RELIGION--Buddhism--Tibetan.
Mountain worship--China--Tibet.
Buddhism--Customs and practices.--China--Tibet
Buddhism--Customs and practices.
Mountain worship.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Tibet Autonomous Region (China)--Religious life and customs.
Tibet (China)--Religious life and customs.
China--Tibet Autonomous Region.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic book.
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: BL1945.T5 / H83 1998eb

Dewey Class. No.: 294.3/923/09515