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Author Huber, Toni, 1956-

Title The holy land reborn : pilgrimage & the Tibetan reinvention of Buddhist India / Toni Huber.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 501 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Shona language
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Buddhism and modernity
Buddhism and modernity.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-483) and index.
Summary The Dalai Lama has said that Tibetans consider themselves 'the child of Indian civilization' and that India is the holy land from whose sources the Tibetans have built their own civilization. This work looks at this relationship and how Tibetans have maintained it, particularly by way of pilgrimage.
Contents List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration; Introduction; Part One: Locating and Dislocating the Land of the Buddha; 1 The Shifting Terrain of the Buddha; 2 Buddhist Knowledge and Anachronism in Tibet; 3 Journeying to the Centre of the World; 4 Tantric Buddhist India and Its Tibetan Appropriation; Part Two: Reinventing the Holy Land in India; 5 Nirvana in Assam; 6 Return to the Centre of the World; 7 The Allure of the Atsaras; 8 The Precious Guru in the Punjab; Part Three: Modern Rebirths of the Holy Land; 9 Archaeological and Discursive Rebirths of Buddhist India.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Buddhist pilgrims and pilgrimages -- India.
Buddhist pilgrims and pilgrimages.
India.
Buddhist pilgrims and pilgrimages -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region.
China -- Tibet Autonomous Region.
Sacred space -- India.
Sacred space.
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Relations -- India.
India -- Relations -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region.
Relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Huber, Toni, 1956- Holy land reborn. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008 9780226356488 0226356485 (DLC) 2007042732 (OCoLC)175056851
ISBN 9780226356501 (electronic book)
0226356507 (electronic book)
9780226356488
0226356485
Standard No. 9786611957186

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