Pilgrimage in Tibet /

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Imprint:Richmond, Surrey : Curzon ; [Leiden, the Netherlands] : International Institute for Asian Studies, 1998.
Description:xi, 228 p. : ill., 1 map ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3193640
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Other authors / contributors:McKay, Alex.
International Institute for Asian Studies.
ISBN:0700709924
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-219) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / A. W. Macdonald
  • Introduction / A. C. McKay
  • 1. Reflections on Pilgrimages to Sacred Mountains, Lakes and Caves / K. Buffetrille
  • 2. On the Geographical and Material Contextuality of Tibetan Pilgrimage / W. van Spengen
  • 3. Hindu Trading Pilgrims / J. Clarke
  • 4. Khyung-sprul 'Jigs-med nam-mkha'i rdo-rje (1897-1995): An Early Twentieth-century Tibetan Pilgrim in India / P. Kvaerne
  • 5. On Pilgrimage for Forty Years in the Himalayas: The Female Lama Jetsun Lochen Rinpoche's (1865-1951) Quest for Sacred Sites / H. Havnevik
  • 6. On the Way to Kailash / W. Callewaert
  • 7. The Opening of the sBas Yul 'Bras mo'i gshongs according to the Chronicle of the Rulers of Sikkim: pilgrimage as a metaphorical model of the submission of foreign populations / B. Steinmann
  • 8. On the Sacredness of Mount Kailasa in the Indian and Tibetan Sources / A. Loseries-Leick
  • 9. Kailas-Manasarovar in "Classical" (Hindu) and Colonial Sources: Asceticism, Power, and Pilgrimage / A. McKay
  • 10. Tibetan Pilgrimage in the Process of Social Change: The Case of Jiuzhaigou / Peng Wenbin.