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Author Huber, Toni, 1956-

Title The cult of Pure Crystal Mountain : popular pilgrimage and visionary landscape in southeast Tibet / Toni Huber
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 297 pages) : illustrations
Series OUP E-Books
Contents Pilgrimage -- Tibetan pilgrimage: concepts and practice -- The cult of pilgrimage mountains in Tibet -- Representations -- Cosmodrama and architectonics of landscape -- History and prayer as map -- Ritual institutions -- A tantric environment -- Popular short pilgrimages -- Barbarian tributes and great processions -- Statecraft and status in contested territory -- Local lives -- Complex identities and local rituals -- Culture, nature, and economy around a holy mountain
Notes Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Canterbury
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Text in English and a word list in Tibetan
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Subject Mountain worship -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region
Buddhism -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- Customs and practices
RELIGION -- Buddhism -- Tibetan.
Mountain worship -- China -- Tibet.
Buddhism -- China -- Tibet -- Customs and practices.
Buddhism -- Customs and practices
Mountain worship
Höhenkult
Religiöses Leben
Ritus
Tibetischer Buddhismus
Pèlerins et pèlerinages -- Bouddhisme tibétain.
SUBJECT Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Religious life and customs
Subject Tibet (China) -- Religious life and customs.
China -- Tibet Autonomous Region
Tibet
Tibet (Chine ; sud) -- Pèlerins et pèlerinages.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 97035716
ISBN 0585294917
9780585294919
9786610471393
6610471398