Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xx, 530 pages)
ISBN:
9789004306189
Series Statement:
Brill's Tibetan studies library v. 38
Content:
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.
Content:
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 British colonial, Hindu modernist, and New Age interests. Using multiple sources, including fieldwork, Alex McKay describes how the early Indic vision of a heavenly mountain named Kailas became identified with actual mountains. He emphasises renunciate agency in demonstrating how local beliefs were subsumed as Kailas developed within Hindu, Buddhist, and Bön traditions, how five mountains in the Indian Himalayan are also named Kailas, and how Kailas sacred geography constructions and a sacred Ganges source region were related
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004304581
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe McKay, Alex, 1955 - Kailas histories Leiden : Brill, 2015 ISBN 9789004304581
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
,
Theology
Keywords:
Himalaja
;
Kailas
;
Tibet
;
Heiligtum
;
Wallfahrt
;
Religionsgeografie
;
Mythologie
;
Kailas-Gebiet
