Title Shaligram Pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas / Holly Walters

Published Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2020] Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000

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Description 1 online resource (293 pages) Contents Living fossils -- Spiral notebooks -- Picked-up pieces -- A mirror to our being -- A bridge to everywhere -- Turning to stone -- River roads -- Ashes and immortality Summary For roughly two thousand years, the veneration of sacred fossil ammonites, called Shaligrams, has been an important part of Hindu and Buddhist ritual practice throughout South Asia and among the global Diaspora. Originating from a single remote region of Himalayan Nepal, called Mustang, Shaligrams are all at once fossils, divine beings, and intimate kin with families and worshippers. Through their lives, movements, and materiality, Shaligrams then reveal fascinating new dimensions of religious practice, pilgrimage, and politics. But as social, environmental, and national conflicts in the politically-contentious region of Mustang continue to escalate, the geologic, mythic, and religious movements of Shaligrams have come to act as parallels to the mobility of people through both space and time. Shaligram mobility therefore traverses through multiple social worlds, multiple religions, and multiple nations revealing Shaligram practitioners as a distinct, alternative, community struggling for a place in a world on the edge Analysis Pilgrimage, Hinduism, Nepal, Himalayas, Fossil Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-287) and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 13, 2020) SUBJECT Vishnu (Hindu deity) -- Cult Subject Rocks -- Himalaya Mountains Rocks -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism. Rocks -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism. Buddhist pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Nepal -- Mustang (District) Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Nepal -- Mustang (District) Sacred stones -- Nepal -- Mustang (District) Śālagrāma. Buddhist worship, rites and ceremonies. Hindu worship, rites and ceremonies. Religious groups: social and cultural aspects. Mysticism, magic and ritual. Rocks, minerals and fossils. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology of Religion. Buddhist pilgrims and pilgrimages Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages Rocks Rocks -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism Rocks -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism Sacred stones Śālagrāma SUBJECT South Asia -- Religious life and customs Subject Himalaya Mountains Nepal -- Mustang (District) South Asia Form Electronic book ISBN 9789048550142 9048550149

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