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ancient sacred site
Author_Alex McKay
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heavenly mountain
Himalayan Sacred Geography
Indic vision
sacred Ganges source
Traditions
universal sacrality
world's great pilgrimage
world’s great pilgrimage
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- ISBN 9789360807610
- Dimensions: 170 x 250mm
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 2024
- Publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
- Publication City/Country: IN
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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.
