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CONTENTS: Hidden Lands in Himalayan Myth and History
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Preface
Geoffrey Samuel, Frances Garrett and Elizabeth McDougal
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ix
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Note on the Locations of the
sbas yul
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xiii
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Maps
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xvi
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Editors and Contributors
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xxiii
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PART 1
Introducing the sbas yul
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Photo Essay: The Terrestrial Buddha Realm of
sbas ul Padma bkod: A Visual Pilgrimage
Ian Baker
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3
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Hidden Lands of Tibet in Myth and History
Geoffrey Samuel
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51
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PART 2
The sbas yul over Time: Historical Perspectives
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2
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Healing Mountains and Hidden Lands
Frances Garrett
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95
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Did sbas yul Play a Part in the Development of Tibetan Book Culture?
Hildegard Diemberger
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108
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Early Echoes of sbas yul Padma bkod in the Livestory of Thang stong rgyal po
Annie Heckman
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123
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Padma bkod through the Lens of Two Pilgrimage Guidebooks: Walking the Body of Rdo rje phag mo
Barbara Hazelton
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143
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"A Great and Small Padma bkod": Guidebooks and Individual Journeys
Franz-Karl Ehrhard
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162
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Prophecy and Fantastical Reality in Sle lung Bzhad pa'i rdo rje's Journey to Padma bkod
Tom Greensmith
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185
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The Shapeshifting Goddess: The Consecration of Padma bkod's Yang Sang Chu Region by the 20th-Century gter ston, Bdud 'joms drag sngags gling pa
Elizabeth McDougal
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207
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PART 3
The sbas yul in the Modern World: Ethnographic Perspectives
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The Arising of Padma bkod in the Western World
Samuel Thevoz
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229
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Voices from the Mountainside Vernacular sbas yul in the Western Himalaya
Callum Pearce
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256
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Pachakshiri: A Little-Known Hidden Land between Tsa ri and Padma bkod in the Eastern Himalaya
Kerstin Grothmann
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276
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How Is This Sacred Place Arrayed? Pacification, Increase, Magnetism, and Wrath in the Establishment of an Eastern Himalayan sbas yul
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297
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Photo Essay: Glimpses of a Hidden Land: The sbas yul of Yol mo
Jon Kwan with Khenpo Nyima Dondrup
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315
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PART 4
Two Guidebooks to the Hidden Land of Padma Bkod
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'Ja'tshon snying po's Guidebook to the Hidden Land of Padma bkod
Translated by Barbara Hazelton
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331
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Bdud 'joms gling pa's Hidden Sacred Land of Padma bkod
Translated by Barbara Hazelton
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342
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Index
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347
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