Pilgrimage In Tibet
The Western image of Tibet as a sacred land is in many ways a mythical construction. But the Tibetans themselves have traditionally mapped out their land in terms of areas of sacred space, and pilgrimage, ensuring a high degree of mobility within all classes of Tibetan society. Pilgrims travelled to local, regional, and national centres throughout recorded Tibetan history. In recent years, pilgrimage has resumed in areas where it had been forbidden by the Chinese authorities, and has now...
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The Western image of Tibet as a sacred land is in many ways a mythical construction. But the Tibetans themselves have traditionally mapped out their land in terms of areas of sacred space, and pilgrimage, ensuring a high degree of mobility within all classes of Tibetan society. Pilgrims travelled to local, regional, and national centres throughout recorded Tibetan history. In recent years, pilgrimage has resumed in areas where it had been forbidden by the Chinese authorities, and has now become one of the most prominent religious expressions of Tibetan national identity.In this major new work, leading scholars of Asian pilgrimage traditions discuss historical and contemporary aspects of pilgrimage within the Tibetan cultural world. Myths and legends, material conditions, textual sources, a modern pilgrim's impressions, political and economic influences, biographies and contemporary developments - all these and many other issues are examined here. The result is an informative and often entertaining work which contributes greatly to our knowledge of the history and culture of Tibet as well as the wider issues of religious power and practice.
AcknowledgementsForewordMapIntroduction11Reflections on Pilgrimages to Sacred Mountains, Lakes and Caves182On the Geographical and Material Contextuality of Tibetan Pilgrimage353Hindu Trading Pilgrims524Khyung-sprul 'Jigs-med nam-mkha'i rdo-rje (1897-1995): An Early Twentieth-century Tibetan Pilgrim in India715On Pilgrimage for Forty Years in the Himalayas: The Female Lama Jetsun Lochen Rinpoche's (1865-1951) Quest for Sacred Sites856On the Way to Kailash1087The Opening of the sBas Yul 'Bras mo'i gshongs according to the Chronicle of the Rulers of Sikkim: pilgrimage as a metaphorical model of the submission of foreign populations1178On the Sacredness of Mount Kailasa in the Indian and Tibetan Sources1439Kailas-Manasarovar in "Classical" (Hindu) and Colonial Sources: Asceticism, Power, and Pilgrimage16510Tibetan Pilgrimage in the Process of Social Change: The Case of Jiuzhaigou184Bibliography202Notes on Contributors220Index223
