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Subject(s)

• Buddhist pilgrims and pilgrimages—China—Tibet—Sources [Browse]
• Buddhist pilgrims and pilgrimages—Philosophy [Browse]

Series

Oxford scholarship online. [More in this series]

Summary note

Drawing on multiple genres of Tibetan literature from the 13th to 20th centuries, including foundational narratives of holy places, polemical debates about the value of pilgrimage, written guides to holy sites, advice texts, and personal diaries, 'Making the Invisible Real' investigates how the Tibetan pilgrimage tradition tries to transform pilgrims' perception so that they might experience the wondrous sacred landscape as real and materially present. Catherine Anne Hartmann argues that the pilgrimage tradition does not simply assume that pilgrims experience this sacred landscape as real, but instead leads pilgrims to adopt deliberate practices of seeing: ways of looking at and interacting with the world that shape their experience of the holy mountain.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 27, 2025).

Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• A Note on Translations and Transliterations
• Introduction
• The Fault Lies with the Blind Man
• Practices of Seeing
• Central Argument
• Textual Sources
• Theoretical and Methodological Touchstones
• Chapter Outline
• 1 Introduction to Pilgrimage in Buddhism
• Prostrating to Lhasa
• Pilgrimage in Early Buddhist Scripture
• Pilgrimage in Early Indian Buddhism
• Indian Tantric Pilgrimage
• Pilgrimage in the Broader Buddhist World
• Destinations in Tibetan Pilgrimage
• The Power and Blessings of Pilgrimage Sites
• Social, Political, and Economic Dimensions of Pilgrimage
• Conclusion
• 2 How to See on Pilgrimage
• Buddhist Approaches to Vision
• Tibetan Terms for Visual Perception
• Cultivating Body and Mind on Pilgrimage
• 3 One Thing, Many Appearances: Perception and Reality in the Controversy over Kailash
• The Debate over Kailash
• Source and Approach
• Sakya Paṇḍita's Objections
• Chödrak Yeshe on Ordinary and Extraordinary Perception
• How Scripture Challenges Ordinary Perception
• How Ordinary Perception Can Support Scripture
• Pilgrimage as Conventional
• 4 Opening Doors to Sacred Realms: Chökyi Drakpa's Visionary Transformation
• Background
• Textual Source
• About Chökyi Drakpa
• About Gyangme
• Opening the Doors of the Holy Place
• Summary of Guidebook to Gyangme: Vajradhāra's Feast
• Chökyi Drakpa's Skillful Seeing
• Reading and Interpreting the Landscape
• Engaging with Others' Perception
• Shifting Between Ordinary and Extraordinary
• The Spontaneity and Effort of Direct Perception
• Gyangme's Transformation
• Conclusion: Modeling Visionary Transformation
• 5 How Pilgrimage Guides Use Language and Landscape to Cultivate Co-Seeing.
• The Genre of Pilgrimage Guides
• Theoretical Approach: Metaphor and Attention
• How Pilgrimage Guides Draw the Eye
• Denaturalizing Ordinary Perception
• Recontextualization
• Inviting Pilgrims' Participation
• Figuration: Mountain as Mandala
• 6 Khatag Zamyak's Co-Seeing
• The Diary of an Accidental Pilgrim
• Methodological Approach
• Khatag Zamyak's Practices of Seeing at Kailash
• Engaging with Pilgrimage Guides, Monastic Caretakers, and Oral History
• Reporting Others' Perceptions
• Doing "Pure Perception" (dag snang byas)
• Visualizing (gsal btab)
• Looking for Signs
• Looking Closely (zhib mjal)
• Focusing (dmigs rnam)
• Recognition (ngo 'phrod)
• Seeing/Meeting Face to Face (zhal mjal)
• Conclusion: Co-Seeing
• Conclusion: A Glimpse of the Mandala
• Appendix 1 Full Translation of Guidebook to Gyangme: Vajradhāra's Feast
• [Colophon]
• Appendix 2 Translation of Khatag Zamyak's Nyindeb, pages 166-174
• Bibliography
• Index.

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ISBN

• 9780197791585
• 0197791581
• 9780197791561
• 0197791565

OCLC

1491239568

Doi

10.1093/9780197791585.001.0001

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