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

By Huber , Toni

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
1999
ISBN
9780585294919, 0585294917
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14950061 bytes)
Pages
297\314
Topic
Religion Buddhism
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-10-08 13:21:28

Description

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 content, Huber offers discussion and analysis of the construction and meaning of Tibetan cultural categories of space, place, and person, and the practice of ritual and organization of traditional society in relation to them.

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