Cult of Pure Crystal Mountain

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Cult of Pure Crystal Mountain
By : Tony Huber

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Author: Tony Huber
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 0195120078 / 9780195120073

Product Code: 12324

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Popular Pilgrimage and Visionary Landscape in Southeast Tibet

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 1940s and '50s, 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 with the advent of Chinese colonial modernity in Tibet. In addition to the work's documentary content, Huber offers discussion and analysis of the construction and meaning of Tibetan cultural categories of space, place, and person, and the practice of ritual and organization of traditional society in relation to them.

Cult of Pure Crystal Mountain, Tony Huber, OUP, Hardcover, 320 pp., $72.00

Note on Tibetan Words xv

Pilgrimage

Introduction 3

Tibetan Pilgrimage: Concepts and Practice 10

The Cult of Pilgrimage Mountains in Tibet 21

Representations

Cosmodrama and Architectonics of Landscape 39

History and Prayer as Map 58

Ritual Institutions

A Tantric Environment 81

Popular Short Pilgrimages 104

Barbarian Tributes and Great Processions 128

Statecraft and Status in Contested Territory 153

Local Lives

Complex Identities and Local Rituals 177

Culture, Nature, and Economy around a Holy Mountain 196

Epilogue 219

Tibetan Word List 221

Notes 231

Bibliography 265

Index 283

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