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Sacred spaces and powerful places in Tibetan culture : a collection of essays / edited by Toni Huber.

Title
Sacred spaces and powerful places in Tibetan culture : a collection of essays / edited by Toni Huber.
Publication
Dharamsala, H.P. : Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Huber, Toni, 1956-
  • Library of Tibetan Works & Archives
Description
xi, 403 p.; 25 cm.
Subject
  • Sacred space > China > Tibet Autonomous Region
  • Buddhist pilgrims and pilgrimages > China > Tibet Autonomous Region
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The politics of sacred space in Bon and Tibetan popular tradition / Charles Ramble -- Machig Zhama's recovery: traces of ancient history and myth in the south Tibetan landscape of Khata and Phadrug / Hildegard Diemberger and Guntram Hazod -- The Mon-pa revisited: in search of Mon / Françoise Pommaret -- Putting the Gnas back into Gnas-skor: rethinking Tibetan pilgrimage practice / Toni Huber -- The Blue Lake of A-mdo and its island: legends and pilgrimage guide / Katia Buffetrille -- A Tibetan guide for pilgrimage to Ti-se (Mount Kailas) and mTsho Ma-pham (Lake Manasarovar / Toni Huber and Tsepak Rigzin -- Perception of landscape in Karzha: "sacred" geography and the Tibetan system of "geomancy" / Elisabeth Stutchbury -- Internal and external geography in spiritual biography / David Templeman -- Taming the earth, controlling the cosmos: transformation of space in Tibetan Buddhist and Bon-po ritual dances / Mona Schrempf -- The role of "treasure discoverers" and their search for Himalayan sacred lands / Franz-Karl Ehrhard -- Political and ritual aspects of the search for Himalayan sacred lands / Franz-Karl Ehrhard -- 'Ol-mo-lung-ring: the original holy place / Dan Martin -- The British imperial influence on the Kailas-Manasarovar pilgrimage / Alex McKay -- Ganja and Murdo: the social construction of space at two pilgrimage sites in Eastern Tibet / Lawrence Epstein and Peng Wenbin -- Gendered practices and the inner sanctum: the reconstruction of Tibetan sacred space in "China's Tibet" / Charlene E. Makley -- Reading the Potala / Peter Bishop.
ISBN
8186470220
LCCN
^^^99499349^
OCLC
  • 43356239
  • SCSB-11875301
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library