The cult of Pure Crystal Mountain : popular pilgrimage and visionary landscape in southeast Tibet / Toni Huber.
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TextLanguage: English, Tibetan Publication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 297 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 0585294917
- 9780585294919
- 9786610471393
- 6610471398
- Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Religious life and customs
- Mountain worship -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region
- Buddhism -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- Customs and practices
- RELIGION -- Buddhism -- Tibetan
- Mountain worship -- China -- Tibet
- Buddhism -- China -- Tibet -- Customs and practices
- Tibet (China) -- Religious life and customs
- Buddhism -- Customs and practices
- Mountain worship
- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region
- 294.3/923/09515 21
- BL1945.T5 H83 1998eb
- B947. 275
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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