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Power Places of Central Tibet: The Pilgrim's Guide
By: Dowman Keith
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Publication Date:
1998/2008
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The Pilgrim's Guide
Tibet is now open to anyone wishing to explore its ancient culture. This book, based on a nineteenth century guide for Tibetan pilgrims by the renowned Lama Jamyang Kyentse Wangpo, describes the location, site, relics and background to places of major religious and historic significance. To compile the guide, the author followed in Jamyang Kyentse's footsteps, visiting 150 temples, monasteries, sacred caves, lakes and mountains. Some of these are easily accessible to tourist groups; others have to be reached on foot or have never previously been visited by a foreigner. There is full information about Lhasa and the route west from Lhasa to the Nepal border- both popular destinations for the tourist- and descriptions of seventeen pilgrimages within a 150 km radius of Lhasa. Photographs, maps and drawings help the visitor to locate and identify what is to be seen.
The Pilgrim's Guide will inform the tourist in his organized perambulation of major monasteries; provide geographical and historical information for the specialist; supply the trekker with route maps and destinations.; and also give the armchair traveler and student of Tibetan Buddhism the first detailed guide to central Tibet ever published. It will be an invaluable companion to the package tourist and pilgrim trekker alike.
Power Places of Central Tibet, Keith Dowman, Timeless Books, Paperback, 345 pages, $16.00
Keith Dowman has spent the last twenty years in India and Nepal. He has been educated in the theory and practice of Tibetan Buddhism by eminent Lamas of Several Tibetan schools, and has translated several major Tibetan texts into English. He now lives with his family in Kathmandu, where he continues to explore the Tibetan tradition and to interpret it for people in the West.
Contents: THE POWER-PLACES OF CENTRAL TIBET - The Pilgrim's Guide
Preface
ix
Introduction
1
Notes on Pronunciation and Tibetan Names
33
Note on Cartography
34
Glossary of Geographical Terms and Key to Maps
34
1.
The Holy City of Lhasa
38
2.
The Caves of Drak Yerpa
73
3.
North of Lhasa to Reteng
80
4.
To Ganden and Beyond
96
5.
The Drigung Mandala
106
6.
Tolung: The Karmapa's Domain
122
7.
The Highway from Lhasa to Chaksam Bridge
132
8.
Below Lhasa to Simpo Ri
139
9.
The South Bank of the Tsangpo
147
10.
The Upper Dranang and Drachi Valleys
164
11.
Yarlung: The Heart of Tibet
171
12.
Chongye and the Royal Tombs
196
13.
Dorje Drak and the Caves of Drakyul
205
14.
Samye Chokor
216
15.
The Valley of Yon
236
16.
Sangri and the Woka Valley
245
17.
Across Tsang to the Nepal Border
264
18.
Western Tsang
267
Appendices
I
The Supine Demoness
284
II
Guru Rinpoche's Cave Power-places
288
III
Power-places with Treasure Troves
290
IV
The Lume Temples
295
V
Some Principal Kadampa Gompas
295
VI
The Original Kagyu Gompas
286
Notes to the Text
297
Glossary of Tibetan Terms
304
Visual Glossary of Buddhas
309
Selected Bibliography
325
I Index of Place-Names
327
II Index of Lamas and Schools
336
III Index of Deities with Tibetan Transliteration
343
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