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1 online resource. |
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text file |
| Series |
Brill's Tibetan studies library,
1568-6183 ;
v. 38
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Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 38.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements; List of Maps; List of Illustrations; Maps; Introduction; Section 1. Indic Histories; Chapter 1. Mountains and Renunciates: The Early Pan-Asian Cultural Landscape; Chapter 2. "The Play Garden of the Gods ... Beyond the Course of Humans"; Chapter 3. Recreating the Divine Order: The Puranic Kailas; Chapter 4. A Tantric Kailas: The Alchemical Trail; Chapter 5. An Early Buddhist Kelāsa; Chapter 6. Kailas on the Edge of Modernity; Section 2. The Kailas Mountains of India; Chapter 7. Above the Naga Lakes: Kaplaś Kailas & Manimahesh Kailas. |
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Chapter 8. The Kinnaur and the Adhi KailasChapter 9. Sri Kailas: The Mountain at the Source; Chapter 10. Sri Kailas: The Epic Prototype?; Illustrations; Section 3. Tibetan Histories; Chapter 11. Tibet's Tise; Chapter 12. Buddhacising the Mountain; Chapter 13. Zhang-Zhung, Bön, and the Mountain; Chapter 14. The Tise (Kailas) Deities; Section 4. Modern Histories; Chapter 15. The European Construction of Kailas-Manasarovar; Chapter 16. From Theosophy's Mahatmas to a Globalised Kailas; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages -- China -- Kailas, Mount.
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Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages. |
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China. |
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Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- History.
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Tibet Region -- Religious life and customs.
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Tibet Region. |
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Kailas, Mount (China)
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: McKay, Alex. Kailas histories. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016] (DLC) 2015034536 |
| ISBN |
9789004306189 (electronic book) |
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9004306188 (electronic book) |
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9789004304581 (hardback ; acid-free paper) |
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9004304584 |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/9789004306189 |
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