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Kailas histories : renunciate traditions and the construction of Himalayan sacred geography
- Title
- Kailas histories : renunciate traditions and the construction of Himalayan sacred geography / by Alex McKay.
- Author
- McKay, Alex
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
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- Description
- xx, 530 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 25 cm
- Summary
- Tibet's Mount Kailas is one of the world's great pilgrimage centres, renowned as an ancient sacred site that embodies a universal sacrality. But 'Kailas histories: Renunciate traditions and the construction of Himalayan sacred geography' demonstrates that this understanding is a recent construction by British colonial, Hindu modernist, and New Age interests. Using multiple sources, including fieldwork, Alex McKay describes how the early Indic vision of a heavenly mountain named Kailas became identified with actual mountains. He emphasises renunciate agency in demonstrating how local beliefs were subsumed as Kailas developed within Hindu, Buddhist, and Bön traditions, how five mountains in the Indian Himalayan are also named Kailas, and how Kailas sacred geography constructions and a sacred Ganges source region were related.
- Series Statement
- Brill's Tibetan studies library, 1568-6183 ; volume 38
- Uniform Title
- Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 38.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-511) and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-2702
- ISBN
- 9789004304581
- 9004304584
- 9789004306189 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015034536
- 9789004304581
- OCLC
- 920944449
- Author
- McKay, Alex, author.
- Title
- Kailas histories : renunciate traditions and the construction of Himalayan sacred geography / by Alex McKay.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Brill's Tibetan studies library, 1568-6183 ; volume 38Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 38.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-511) and index.
- Other Form:
- 9789004306189(GyWOH)har155023676
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9789004304581
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-2702