Sacred Spaces & Powerful Places in Tibetan Culture: A Collection of Essays

The essays in this volume all attempt to document and interpret ways in which Tibetan peoples have identified and related to different categories of space and place as being unique or of higher ontological value, and as being set apart from many other spheres and sites of human life. The collection reflects the multitude of traditions of thinking about space and place which can be found in Tibetan culture. Each essay constitutes a separate chapter and they are arranged into four parts relative to their predominant themes like, Social Identity & Territory, Ritual Spaces & Places, Hidden Countries & Holy Lands and Colonialism & modernity.