Title The cult of Pure Crystal Mountain : popular pilgrimage and visionary landscape in southeast Tibet / Toni Huber.

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Description	1 online resource (xii, 297 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Note	Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Canterbury.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Pilgrimage -- Tibetan pilgrimage: concepts and practice -- The cult of pilgrimage mountains in Tibet -- Representations -- Cosmodrama and architectonics of landscape -- History and prayer as map -- Ritual institutions -- A tantric environment -- Popular short pilgrimages -- Barbarian tributes and great processions -- Statecraft and status in contested territory -- Local lives -- Complex identities and local rituals -- Culture, nature, and economy around a holy mountain.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language	Text in English and a word list in Tibetan.
Subject	Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Religious life and customs.
	Mountain worship -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region.
	Mountain worship.
	China -- Tibet Autonomous Region.
	Buddhism -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- Customs and practices.
	Buddhism.
	Tibet (China) -- Religious life and customs.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Huber, Toni, 1956- Cult of Pure Crystal Mountain. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999 0195120078 (DLC) 97035716 (OCoLC)37418360
ISBN	0585294917 (electronic book)
	9780585294919 (electronic book)
	0195120078 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
	9780195120073