Description |
1 online resource (293 pages) |
Contents |
Living fossils -- Spiral notebooks -- Picked-up pieces -- A mirror to our being -- A bridge to everywhere -- Turning to stone -- River roads -- Ashes and immortality |
Summary |
For roughly two thousand years, the veneration of sacred fossil ammonites, called Shaligrams, has been an important part of Hindu and Buddhist ritual practice throughout South Asia and among the global Diaspora. Originating from a single remote region of Himalayan Nepal, called Mustang, Shaligrams are all at once fossils, divine beings, and intimate kin with families and worshippers. Through their lives, movements, and materiality, Shaligrams then reveal fascinating new dimensions of religious practice, pilgrimage, and politics. But as social, environmental, and national conflicts in the politically-contentious region of Mustang continue to escalate, the geologic, mythic, and religious movements of Shaligrams have come to act as parallels to the mobility of people through both space and time. Shaligram mobility therefore traverses through multiple social worlds, multiple religions, and multiple nations revealing Shaligram practitioners as a distinct, alternative, community struggling for a place in a world on the edge |
Analysis |
Pilgrimage, Hinduism, Nepal, Himalayas, Fossil |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-287) and index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 13, 2020) |
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Vishnu (Hindu deity) -- Cult
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Rocks -- Himalaya Mountains
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Rocks -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
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Rocks -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
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Buddhist pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Nepal -- Mustang (District)
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Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Nepal -- Mustang (District)
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Sacred stones -- Nepal -- Mustang (District)
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Śālagrāma.
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Buddhist worship, rites and ceremonies.
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Hindu worship, rites and ceremonies.
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Religious groups: social and cultural aspects.
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Mysticism, magic and ritual.
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Rocks, minerals and fossils.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology of Religion.
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Buddhist pilgrims and pilgrimages
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Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages
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Rocks
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Rocks -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism
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Rocks -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism
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Sacred stones
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Śālagrāma
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South Asia -- Religious life and customs
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Himalaya Mountains
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Nepal -- Mustang (District)
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South Asia
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9789048550142 |
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9048550149 |
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