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Sacred Landscape of the Himalaya

Sacred Landscape of the Himalaya

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Sacred Landscape of the Himalaya: Contents

Preface

page 7

Axel Michaels

The Sacredness of (Himalayan) Landscapes

page 13

Marc Dujardin

Demolition and re-erection in contemporary Rukubji, Bhutan: Building as cyclical renewal and spatial mediation

page 19

Ada Gansach

Expressions of diversity: a comparative study of descriptions of village space in ritual processions in three villages of North West Nepal

page 39

John Harrison

Kings´ castles and sacred squares: the founding of Lo Monthang

page 55

Reinhard Herdick

The spatial order of the area of Yangthang and its affiliated monastery Ridzong in Ladakh

page 67

Amandus Vanquaille and Hilde Vets

Lamayuru: The symbolic architecture of light

page 85

Franz-Karl Ehrhard

Pilgrims in search of sacred lands

page 95

Kim Gutschow and Niels Gutschow

A landscape dissolved: Households, fields, and irrigation in Rinam, Northwest India

page 11

William Sax

Divine kingdoms in the Central Himalayas

page 177

Niels Gutschow and Charles Ramble

Up and down, inside and outside: notions of space and territory in Tibetan villages of Mustang

page 137

Contributors

page 195

Notes on the transcription of Tibetan terms

page 196

Glossary of Tibetan Words

page 197

References

page 201

Index

page 209