The Cult of Pure Crystal Mountain: Popular Pilgrimage and Visionary Landscape in Southeast TibetThe Tibetan district of Tsari with its sacred snow-covered peak of Pure Crystal Mountain has long been a place of symbolic and ritual significance for Tibetan peoples. In this book, Toni Huber provides the first thorough study of a major Tibetan Buddhist pilgrimage center and cult mountain, and explores the esoteric and popular traditions of ritual there. The main focus is on the period of the 1940s and '50s, just prior to the 1959 Lhasa uprising and subsequent Tibetan diaspora into South Asia. Huber's work thus documents Tibetan life patterns and cultural traditions which have largely disappeared with the advent of Chinese colonial modernity in Tibet. In addition to the work's documentary content, Huber offers discussion and analysis of the construction and meaning of Tibetan cultural categories of space, place, and person, and the practice of ritual and organization of traditional society in relation to them. |
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abode annual bamboo body Bönpo Central Tibetan century chapter charnel grounds chen Chikchar Chinese chinlab Chölé chos chosen meditational deities chöten circumambulation context cultural dakpa Dakpo Dalai Lama divine Dorje Pagmo Drölma Drukpa Dzong empowerment example Gampopa Gelukpa gnas goddess Gyare households Huber identity important Kagyü Karpo khachö Khorlo Dompa Lake landscape Lhasa lineage Lodzong Lopa maṇḍala mandala palace Mandala Plain middle circuit Mikyimdün mkha monastery mountain cult narrative néri néri mountains oral pa'i paranormal powers Pema Pema Karpo performed persons Phodrang Phuk pilgrims popular practice practitioners procession protective deities Pure Crystal Mountain ravine circuit rdo rje religious resthouses rgya ritual Rongkor Chenmo route sacred Shamarpa Shingkyong shrine sky-goers social space status Subansiri Tantra Tibet Tibetan Buddhist Tibetan pilgrimage traditions trekang tribal Tsangpa Gyare Tsari Tsariwa tsulkang upper mountain upper Subansiri valley various village women worship yoga yogins Yümé