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Kailas Histories
Alex McKay
其他書名
Renunciate Traditions and the Construction of Himalayan Sacred Geography
出版
BRILL
, 2015-10-27
主題
Religion / Buddhism / General
Religion / Hinduism / General
Religion / Devotional
Social Science / Customs & Traditions
Religion / General
ISBN
9004306188
9789004306189
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=l3HsCgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.