Kailas histories : : renunciate traditions and the construction of Himalayan sacred geography /

Kailas histories : : renunciate traditions and the construction of Himalayan sacred geography / / by Alex McKay.

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...

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Superior document:Brill's Tibetan studies library, volume 38
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McKay, Alex,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Brill's Tibetan studies library ; volume 38.
Physical Description:1 online resource (550 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Introduction
  • Mountains and Renunciates: The Early Pan-Asian Cultural Landscape
  • “The Play Garden of the Gods … Beyond the Course of Humans”
  • Recreating the Divine Order: The Puranic Kailas
  • A Tantric Kailas: The Alchemical Trail
  • An Early Buddhist Kelāsa
  • Kailas on the Edge of Modernity
  • Above the Naga Lakes: Kaplaś Kailas and Manimahesh Kailas
  • The Kinnaur and the Adhi Kailas
  • Sri Kailas: The Mountain at the Source
  • Sri Kailas: The Epic Prototype?
  • Illustrations
  • Tibet’s Tise
  • Buddhacising the Mountain
  • Zhang-Zhung, Bön, and the Mountain
  • The Tise (Kailas) Deities
  • The European Construction of Kailas-Manasarovar
  • From Theosophy’s Mahatmas to a Globalised Kailas
  • Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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