Kailas Histories

Renunciate Traditions and the Construction of Himalayan Sacred Geography.

Alex McKay (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

550 Seiten

2024
Manohar Publishers and Distributors (Verlag)
9789360807610 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

Alex McKay, PhD (London University soas: South Asian History; 1995) has published around forty articles and monographs on Indo-Tibetan history, including The History of Tibet (3 vols.: 2003). He is a retired soas, ucl, and iias (Leiden) Research Fellow.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.10.2024
• Verlagsort: New Delhi
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 170 x 250 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
• ISBN-13: 9789360807610 / 9789360807610
• Zustand: Neuware