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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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.