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Himalayan nature : representations and reality
- Title
- Himalayan nature : representations and reality / edited by Erika Sandman and Riika J. Virtanen.
- Publication
- Helsinki : Finnish Oriental Society, 2011.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- ix, 242 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Studia Orientalia ; 109
- Uniform Title
- Studia Orientalia ; 109.
- Subjects
- Note
- "Most of the papers ... were presented at the ... workshop that took place on 6-7 March 2008 at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, University of Helsinki": Pref.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Preface / Erika Sandman & Riika J. Virtanen -- Himalaya-Workshop : opening address / Klaus Karttunen -- "Looking over at the Mountains" : sense of place in the Third Karmapa's "Songs of Experience" / Ruth Gamble -- Repkong Tantric practitioners and their environment : observing the vow of not taking life / Tiina Hyytiäinen -- Toes and heels tormented by the hardened snow / Klaus Karttunen -- Holy grounds : landscapes in Tibetan thangka paintings / Pekka Lehtisalo -- Pilgrimage to Brag dkar sprel rdzong : presentation and translation of a pilgrimage guide / Nakza Drolma (Zhuoma) -- The main factors of biodiversity changes in East Tibet / Juha-Pekka Reilin -- The nature-deities in Tibet : a discussion of the tale "The subduing and putting under oath of Tibet's malignant Iha'dre" in Padma bka'thang / Thupten K. Rikey -- Effects of urbanization on water quality of the Bagmati River in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal / Reena Amatya Shrestha, Xiang Huang & Mika Sillanpää -- Medicine in India and TIbet : reflections on Buddhism and nature / Jaakko Takkinen -- Making museum collections : missionary Hilja Heiskanen's Himalayan artefacts / Pilvi Vainonen -- Dhondup Gyal and nature : interpreting poetic images of wind and cloud in two Tibetan works -- Review article: Correctness and controversies in Asian historiography / Juha Janhunen
- Call Number
- JFF 11-959
- ISBN
- 9789519380759
- 9519380752
- OCLC
- 730247296
- Title
- Himalayan nature : representations and reality / edited by Erika Sandman and Riika J. Virtanen.
- Imprint
- Helsinki : Finnish Oriental Society, 2011.
- Series
- Studia Orientalia ; 109Studia Orientalia ; 109.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Added Author
- Sandman, Erika.Virtanen, Riika J.
- Research Call Number
- JFF 11-959