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Reflections of the mountain : essays on the history and social meaning of the mountain cult in Tibet and the Himalaya / edited by Anne-Marie Blondeau and Ernst Steinkellner.

Title
Reflections of the mountain : essays on the history and social meaning of the mountain cult in Tibet and the Himalaya / edited by Anne-Marie Blondeau and Ernst Steinkellner.
Publication
Wien : Verlag de Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1996.

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Additional Authors
  • Blondeau, Anne-Marie
  • Steinkellner, Ernst
  • Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse
Description
xi, 262 p. : ill., maps; 30 cm.
Series Statement
  • Denkschriften / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse ; 254. Bd
  • Veröffentlichungen zur Sozialanthropologie ; Bd. 2
Uniform Title
  • Veröffentlichungen zur Sozialanthropologie Bd. 2.
  • Denkschriften (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse) 254. Bd.
Subject
  • Mountain people > Himalaya Mountains Region
  • Mountain people > China > Tibet Autonomous Region
  • Mountains > Folklore
  • Himalaya Mountains Region > Population
  • Tibet Autonomous Region (China) > Population
  • Himalaya Mountains Region > Religion
  • Tibet Autonomous Region (China) > Religion
Genre/Form
Folklore
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • No sacred mountains in Central Ladakh? / P. Dollfus -- gZhon nu mdung lag, mountain god of Zanskar / I. Riaboff -- On local and mountain deities in Bhutan / F. Pommaret -- The Tibetan cult of mountain deities and its political significance / S. G. Karmay -- One day the mountains will go away ... : preliminary remarks on the flying mountains of Tibet / K. Buffetrille -- The yul lha gsol of mTsho yul: on the relation between the mountain and the lake in the context of the "land god ritual" of Phoksumdo (Northwestern Nepal) / G. Hazod -- Mountain high, valley deep: the yul lha of Dolpo / Ch. Schicklgruber -- Mongolian mountain deities and local gods: examples of rituals for their worship in Tibetan language / A. Heller -- Patterns of places / C. Ramble.
  • The five Tamang ancestors and Sailung phoi sibda karpo / G. Tautscher -- Mountain deities, the invisible body of the society: a comparative study of the representations of mountains by the Tamang and the Thami of Nepal, the Lepcha and Bhotia of Sikkim / B. Steinmann -- Political and religious aspects of mountain cults in the hidden valley of Khenbalung / H. Diemberger -- Hierarchical merging and horizontal distinction: a comparative perspective on Tibetan mountain cults / A. Gingrich.
ISBN
3700126115
OCLC
  • 36633367
  • SCSB-10214497
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library