Title Kailas histories : renunciate traditions and the construction of Himalayan sacred geography / by Alex McKay

Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource Series Brill's Tibetan studies library, 1568-6183 ; v. 38 Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 38. Contents Acknowledgements; List of Maps; List of Illustrations; Maps; Introduction; Section 1. Indic Histories; Chapter 1. Mountains and Renunciates: The Early Pan-Asian Cultural Landscape; Chapter 2. "The Play Garden of the Gods ... Beyond the Course of Humans"; Chapter 3. Recreating the Divine Order: The Puranic Kailas; Chapter 4. A Tantric Kailas: The Alchemical Trail; Chapter 5. An Early Buddhist Kelāsa; Chapter 6. Kailas on the Edge of Modernity; Section 2. The Kailas Mountains of India; Chapter 7. Above the Naga Lakes: Kaplaś Kailas & Manimahesh Kailas Chapter 8. The Kinnaur and the Adhi KailasChapter 9. Sri Kailas: The Mountain at the Source; Chapter 10. Sri Kailas: The Epic Prototype?; Illustrations; Section 3. Tibetan Histories; Chapter 11. Tibet's Tise; Chapter 12. Buddhacising the Mountain; Chapter 13. Zhang-Zhung, Bön, and the Mountain; Chapter 14. The Tise (Kailas) Deities; Section 4. Modern Histories; Chapter 15. The European Construction of Kailas-Manasarovar; Chapter 16. From Theosophy's Mahatmas to a Globalised Kailas; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages -- China -- Kailas, Mount RELIGION -- Comparative Religion. Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages SUBJECT Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85135217 Tibet Region -- Religious life and customs Kailas, Mount (China) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85071289 Subject China -- Mount Kailas China -- Tibet Autonomous Region Tibet Region Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9789004306189 9004306188

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