Author: Rahul Kuldip BediPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buddhist shrines
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Kailas & Manasarovar After 22 Years in Shiva's Domain
Author: Rahul Kuldip BediPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buddhist shrines
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Kailas Histories
Author: Alex McKayPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004306188
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Tibet’s Mount Kailas is one of the world’s great pilgrimage centres, renowned as an ancient sacred site that embodies a universal sacrality. But Kailas Histories: Renunciate Traditions and the Construction of Himalayan Sacred Geography demonstrates that this understanding is a recent construction by British colonial, Hindu modernist, and New Age interests. Using multiple sources, including fieldwork, Alex McKay describes how the early Indic vision of a heavenly mountain named Kailas became identified with actual mountains. He emphasises renunciate agency in demonstrating how local beliefs were subsumed as Kailas developed within Hindu, Buddhist, and Bön traditions, how five mountains in the Indian Himalayan are also named Kailas, and how Kailas sacred geography constructions and a sacred Ganges source region were related.
Pilgrimage in Tibet
Author: Alex McKayPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136807098
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
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.
Encyclopedia of Demons in World Religions and Cultures
Author: Theresa BanePublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786488948
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
This exhaustive volume catalogs nearly three thousand demons in the mythologies and lore of virtually every ancient society and most religions. From Aamon, the demon of life and reproduction with the head of a serpent and the body of a wolf in Christian demonology, to Zu, the half-man, half-bird personification of the southern wind and thunder clouds in Sumero-Akkadian mythology, entries offer descriptions of each demon's origins, appearance and cultural significance. Also included are descriptions of the demonic and diabolical members making up the hierarchy of Hell and the numerous species of demons that, according to various folklores, mythologies, and religions, populate the earth and plague mankind. Very thoroughly indexed.
Accessions List, South Asia
Author: Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, New DelhiPublisher:
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Category : South Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Records publications acquired from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, by the U.S. Library of Congress Offices in New Delhi, India, and Karachi, Pakistan.
Sacred Spaces and Powerful Places in Tibetan Culture
Author: Toni HuberPublisher: Library of Tibetan Works & Archives
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Indian Books in Print
Author: Indian Books
Author: Indian National Bibliography
Author: B. S. KesavanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Author: