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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.

Imprint New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

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Descript 1 online resource (xii, 297 pages) : illustrations
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Series OUP E-Books.
Note Text in English and a word list in Tibetan.
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Canterbury.
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Religious life and customs.
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.
Tibet (China) -- Religious life and customs.
Buddhism -- Customs and practices. (OCoLC)fst00840036
Mountain worship. (OCoLC)fst01028330
China -- Tibet Autonomous Region. (OCoLC)fst01758817
Ho⁺henkult
Religio⁺ses Leben
Ritus
Tibetischer Buddhismus
Tibet
P©·lerins et p©·lerinages -- Bouddhisme tib©♭tain.
Tibet (Chine ; sud) -- P©·lerins et p©·lerinages.
ISBN 0585294917 (electronic bk.)
9780585294919 (electronic bk.)
9786610471393
6610471398
0195120078 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780195120073