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McKay, Alex (編)
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| Date | 1998 |
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| Pages | 228 |
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| Publisher | Curzon Press |
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| Location | Richmond, Surrey, UK [泰晤士河畔列治文區, 薩里, 英國] |
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| Content type | 書籍=Book |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Abstract | The Western image of Tibet as a sacred land is in many ways a mythical construction. But the Tibetans themselves have traditionally mapped out their land in terms of areas of sacred space, and pilgrimage, ensuring a high degree of mobility within all classes of Tibetan society. Pilgrims travelled to local, regional, and national centres throughout recorded Tibetan history. In recent years, pilgrimage has resumed in areas where it had been forbidden by the Chinese authorities, and has now become one of the most prominent religious expressions of Tibetan national identity.
In this major new work, leading scholars of Asian pilgrimage traditions discuss historical and contemporary aspects of pilgrimage within the Tibetan cultural world. Myths and legends, material conditions, textual sources, a modern pilgrim's impressions, political and economic influences, biographies and contemporary developments - all these and many other issues are examined here. The result is an informative and often entertaining work which contributes greatly to our knowledge of the history and culture of Tibet as well as the wider issues of religious power and practice. |
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| Table of contents | Acknowledgements vii
Foreword: A..W. Macdonald ix
Map xii
Introduction: A.C. McKay 1
1. Reflections on Pilgrimages to Sacred Mountains, Lakes and Caves, K. Buffetrille 18
2. On the Geographical and Material Contextuality of Tibetan Pilgrimage, W. van Spengen 35
3. Hindu Trading Pilgrims, J. Clarke 52
4. Khyung-sprul 'Jigs med nam mkha'i rdo rje (1897-1995): An Early Twentieth-Century Tibetan Pilgrim in India, P. Kvaerne 58
5. On Pilgrimage for Forty Years in the Himalayas: The Female Lama Jetsun Lochen Rinpoche's (1865-1951) Quest for Sacred Sites, H. Havnevik 85
6. On the Way to Kailash, W. Callewaert, 108
7. The Opening of the sBas Yul 'Bras mo'i gshongs according to the Chronicle of the Rulers of Sikkim: pilgrimage as a metaphorical model of the submission of foreigh population, B. Steinmann 117
8. On the Sacredness of Mount Kailasa in the Indian and Tibetan Sources, A. Loseries-Leick 143
9. Kailas-Manasarovar in "Classical" (Hindu) and Colonial Sources: Asceticism, Power, and Pilgrimage, A. McKay 165
10. Tibetan Pilgrimage in the Process of Social Change: The Case of Jiuzhaigou, Peng Wenbin 184
Bibliography 202
Notes on the Contributors 220
Index 223
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| ISBN | 0700709924 (hbc); 9780700709922 (hbc) |
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| Hits | 174 |
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| Created date | 2006.03.14 |
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| Modified date | 2024.10.31 |
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