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The Cult of Pure Crystal Mountain: Popular Pilgrimage and Visionary Landscape in Southeast Tibet
Huber, Toni (Alexander von Humboldt Scholar, Zentralasiatisches Institut, Tibetologie, Alexander von Humboldt Scholar, Zentralasiatisches Institut, Tibetologie, Humboldt-Universitat, Berlin)
The Cult of Pure Crystal Mountain: Popular Pilgrimage and Visionary Landscape in Southeast Tibet
Huber, Toni (Alexander von Humboldt Scholar, Zentralasiatisches Institut, Tibetologie, Alexander von Humboldt Scholar, Zentralasiatisches Institut, Tibetologie, Humboldt-Universitat, Berlin)
Tsari has long been a place of symbolic and ritual significance for Tibetan peoples. This text explores the traditions of ritual there focusing on the 1940s and 1950s and documenting Tibetan life patterns and cultural traditions which have largely disappeared with the advent of Chinese colonialism.
314 pages, 9 halftones, 3 maps, bibliography
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | May 6, 1999 |
ISBN13 | 9780195120073 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
Pages | 320 |
Dimensions | 161 × 238 × 25 mm · 662 g |