The cult of Pure Crystal Mountain [[electronic resource] ] : popular pilgrimage and visionary landscape in southeast Tibet / / Toni Huber

• Autore: Huber Toni <1956->
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (314 p.)
• Disciplina: 294.3/923/09515
• Soggetto topico: Buddhism - China - Tibet Autonomous Region - Customs and practices; Mountain worship - China - Tibet Autonomous Region
• Soggetto geografico: Tibet Autonomous Region (China) Religious life and customs
• Note generali: Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Canterbury.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-282) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Note on Tibetan Words; I: PILGRIMAGE; II: REPRESENTATIONS; III: RITUAL INSTITUTIONS; IV: LOCAL LIVES; Epilogue; Tibetan Word List; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The Tibetan district of Tsari with its sacred snow-covered peak of Pure Crystal Mountain has long been a place of symbolic and ritual significance for Tibetan peoples. In this book, Toni Huber provides the first thorough study of a major Tibetan Buddhist pilgrimage center and cult mountain, and explores the esoteric and popular traditions of ritual there. The main focus is on the period of the 1940's and '50's, just prior to the 1959 Lhasa uprising and subsequent Tibetan diaspora into South Asia. Huber's work thus documents Tibetan life patterns and cultural traditions which have largely disappeared
• Titolo autorizzato: The cult of Pure Crystal Mountain
• ISBN: 0-19-773875-3; 1-280-47139-5; 0-19-535313-7; 0-585-29491-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814287403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II