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1 online resource (293 pages) |
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text file |
Note |
Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-287) and index. |
Contents |
Living fossils -- Spiral notebooks -- Picked-up pieces -- A mirror to our being -- A bridge to everywhere -- Turning to stone -- River roads -- Ashes and immortality. |
Summary |
For roughly two thousand years, the veneration of sacred fossil ammonites, called Shaligrams, has been an important part of Hindu and Buddhist ritual practice throughout South Asia and among the global Diaspora. Originating from a single remote region of Himalayan Nepal, called Mustang, Shaligrams are all at once fossils, divine beings, and intimate kin with families and worshippers. Through their lives, movements, and materiality, Shaligrams then reveal fascinating new dimensions of religious practice, pilgrimage, and politics. But as social, environmental, and national conflicts in the politically-contentious region of Mustang continue to escalate, the geologic, mythic, and religious movements of Shaligrams have come to act as parallels to the mobility of people through both space and time. Shaligram mobility therefore traverses through multiple social worlds, multiple religions, and multiple nations revealing Shaligram practitioners as a distinct, alternative, community struggling for a place in a world on the edge. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Vishnu (Hindu deity) -- Cult. |
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Rocks -- Himalaya Mountains.
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Rocks. |
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Himalaya Mountains. |
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Rocks -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
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Rocks -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism. |
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Rocks -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
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Rocks -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism. |
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Buddhist pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Nepal -- Mustang (District)
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Buddhist pilgrims and pilgrimages. |
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Nepal -- Mustang (District) |
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Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Nepal -- Mustang (District)
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Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages. |
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Sacred stones -- Nepal -- Mustang (District)
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Sacred stones. |
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Śālagrāma.
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Śālagrāma. |
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South Asia -- Religious life and customs.
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South Asia. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Project Muse, distributor.
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Other Form: |
Print version: 9789463721721 |
ISBN |
9789048550142 electronic book |
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9048550149 electronic book |
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