The holy land reborn : pilgrimage & the Tibetan reinvention of Buddhist India /
Published by : The University of Chicago Press, (Chicago : ) Physical details: xv, 501 p. : ISBN:978-0-226-35648-8.
Subject(s):
Buddhist pilgrims and pilgrimages
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India.
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Buddhist pilgrims and pilgrimages
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China
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Tibet Autonomous Region.
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Sacred space
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India.
Year: 2008
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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. This work looks at this relationship and how Tibetans have maintained it, particularly by way of pilgrimage.
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