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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Huber, Toni, 1956- Holy land reborn. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008 (DLC) 2007042732 (OCoLC)175056851 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Toni Huber |
ISBN: | 9780226356501 0226356507 1281957186 9781281957184 9786611957186 6611957189 |
OCLC Number: | 309232640 |
Language Note: | English. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 501 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Contents: | List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration; Introduction; Part One: Locating and Dislocating the Land of the Buddha; 1 The Shifting Terrain of the Buddha; 2 Buddhist Knowledge and Anachronism in Tibet; 3 Journeying to the Centre of the World; 4 Tantric Buddhist India and Its Tibetan Appropriation; Part Two: Reinventing the Holy Land in India; 5 Nirvana in Assam; 6 Return to the Centre of the World; 7 The Allure of the Atsaras; 8 The Precious Guru in the Punjab; Part Three: Modern Rebirths of the Holy Land; 9 Archaeological and Discursive Rebirths of Buddhist India. |
Series Title: | Buddhism and modernity. |
Responsibility: | Toni Huber. |
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Abstract:
The Dalai Lama has said that Tibetans consider themselves "the child of Indian civilization" and that India is the "holy land" from whose sources the Tibetans have built their own civilization. What explains this powerful allegiance to India? This title investigates how Tibetans have maintained a ritual relationship to India.
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"The Holy Land Reborn is a significant work that should prove an indispensable piece in the reorientation of Tibetan studies away from essentialist perspectives that promote a simple view of unchanging religious sanctity." - Janice Leoshko, University of Texas at Austin" Read more...

