Pilgrim of the Himalayas
Author | : Edmond Bordeaux Székely |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Buddhism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Edmond Bordeaux Székely |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Buddhism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David L. Snellgrove |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1981-01-01 |
Genre | : Buddhism |
ISBN | : 9780877737209 |
Author | : Holly Walters |
Publisher | : Amsterdam University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2020-09-25 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9048550149 |
For roughly two thousand years, the veneration of sacred fossil ammonites, called Shaligrams has been an important part of Hindu and Buddhist ritual practice throughout South Asia and among the global Diaspora. Originating from a single remote region of Himalayan Nepal, called Mustang, Shaligrams are all at once fossils, divine beings, and intimate kin with families and worshippers. Through their lives, movements, and materiality, Shaligrams then reveal fascinating new dimensions of religious practice, pilgrimage, and politics. But as social, environmental, and national conflicts in the politically-contentious region of Mustang continue to escalate, the geologic, mythic, and religious movements of Shaligrams have come to act as parallels to the mobility of people through both space and time. Shaligram mobility therefore traverses through multiple social worlds, multiple religions, and multiple nations revealing Shaligram practitioners as a distinct, alternative, community struggling for a place in a world on the edge.
Author | : Balwant Nagesh Datar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Himalaya Mountains |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James Joyce |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2020-10-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
After the death of his mother, James found himself at somewhat of a crossroads in life, both spiritually and physically. So what better way to clear his head and decide on a plan than to run away to the Himalayas .James' journey takes him through the sights, sounds and smells of Kathmandu, to the heady heights of Everest Base Camp and the mysterious Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan.
Author | : Christopher A. Howard |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2016-07-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1317221761 |
Mobile Lifeworlds illustrates how the imaginaries and ideals of Western travellers, especially those of untouched nature and spiritual enlightenment, are consistent with media representations of the Himalayan region, romanticism and modernity at large. Blending tourism and pilgrimage, travel across Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, and Northern India is often inspired and oriented by a search for authenticity, adventure and Otherness. Such valued ideals are shown, however, to be contested by the very forces and configurations that enable global mobility. The role ubiquitous media and mobile technologies now play in framing travel experiences are explored, revealing a situation in which actors are neither here nor there, but increasingly are ‘inter-placed’ across planetary landscapes. Beyond institutionalised religious contexts and the visiting of sacred sites, the author shows how a secular religiosity manifests in practical, bodily encounters with foreign environments. This book is unique in that it draws on a dynamic and innovative set of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives, especially phenomenology, the mobilities paradigm and philosophical anthropology. The volume breaks fresh ground in pilgrimage, tourism and travel studies by unfolding the complex relationships between the virtual, imaginary and corporeal dynamics of contemporary mobile lifeworlds.
Author | : William Sturman Sax |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780195069792 |
Every few decades, thousands of Hindu villagers in the Central Himalayas of North India carry their regional goddess Nandadevi in a bridal palanquin to her husband Shiva's home, walking barefoot over icebound mountain passes to a lake surrounded by human bones. This Royal Pilgrimage of Nandadevi is a ritual dramatization of the post-marital journeys of married women from their natal homes to their husbands' homes. Mountain Goddessis an anthropological study of this pilgrimage and the cult of Nandadevi, especially as they relate to local women's lives. The author shows how Nandadevi's appeal stems from the fact that her mythology parallels the life-courses of the local peasant women, and that her ritual procession imitates their annual journey to the village of their birth. Drawing on formal Indian theories, verbal commentaries, songs, interviews, articles, propaganda, legends, pan-Indian Sanskrit liturgies, historical documents, and the author's remarkable personal account of the pilgrimage, this gripping narrative is a unique resource for courses in the anthropology of religion, Hinduism, and folklore, ritual, and gender studies.
Author | : Mohan Ranga Rao |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789393508805 |
After being threatened by a Bangalore mob boss, retired Indian businessman Mohan Ranga Rao makes a vow: if he somehow gets out of the situation, he will thank the gods by going on Kailash Mansarova, a holy mountain pilgrimage in Tibet. What starts out as merely a challenging high-altitude trek soon becomes a life-changing adventure. With a blend of humour, honesty and keen insight, Mohan journeys toward a deeper understanding of the world around him. A memoir of a road less travelled and a true story of self-discovery at 19,000 feet.
Author | : M. S. Kohli |
Publisher | : Indus Publishing |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : 9788173871351 |
This Book Explores The Tourism Aspects Of The `Mountains Of India` In General And Provides Useable Information On Their Geography, Pilgrimage Centres, Hill Stations And Adventure Options Available To An Individual.
Author | : John Crook |
Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9788120814790 |
When John Crock of Bristol University began research in the Zangskar valley of Ladakh in 1977 his prime intention was to investigate the social anthropology of the area through studies of village life. In 1986 Crook returned to Ladakh with into the social organisation, history, meditational practices and philosophy of the yogins who still lived and practiced in the remote parts of the area. This book is a record of the author's adventurous journeys to meet some remarkable men. The yogins were often generous, providing accounts of their training, one of them allowing Crook to photograph a Mahamudra by the eminent Tipun Padma of this difficult work together with that of a biography of the great women yogin Machig Labdron provides the basis for extensive and original discussions of the meaning of Tibetan Buddhism and it's significance in our time.