The Cult of Pure Crystal Mountain

Popular Pilgrimage and Visionary Landscape in Southeast Tibet

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3965638
AutoresToni Huber
Año2002
Volumen122
Número1
Páginas184
Fecha de publicación2002-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3087730
OpenAlexW1995315283
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas28

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

Ancient history · Archaeology · Buddhism · Colonialism · Cult · Diaspora · Geography · Meaning (existential) · Modernity · Pilgrimage · Political science · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Religious Tourism and Spaces · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies