The Cult of Pure Crystal Mountain: Popular Pilgrimage and Visionary Landscape in Southeast Tibet.

AuthorGuenther, Herbert
PositionBrief Reviews of Books

The Cult of Pure Crystal Mountain: Popular Pilgrimage and Visionary Landscape in Southeast Tibet. By TONI HUBER. New York: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1999. Pp. xv + 297, illus. $65.

This fascinating book is the first of its kind to provide a comprehensive study of Tibetan life at Tsari, a remote part of Southeast Tibet, as it evolved and Continues to thrive around the Show-covered Pure Crystal Mountain. This mountain is one of the many sacred mountains that have both symbolic and ritual significance on a cosmic scale, as is evidenced by pilgrimages, often life-threatening, to it from all over Tibet, a vast Central Asian area that is inhabited by a variety of ethnic groups, lumped together as "Tibetans." Though the work is most thoroughly researched, the author, who has also done extensive field work, modestly claims that this presentation is only a preliminary study inviting further...

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