Mindscaping the Landscape of Tibet: Place, Memorability, Ecoaesthetics

Dan Smyer Yü

Published by De Gruyter 2015

Mindscaping the Landscape of Tibet

Place, Memorability, Ecoaesthetics

Dan Smyer Yü

Volume 60 in the series Religion and Society

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614514237

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Based on the author’s cross-regional fieldwork, archival findings, and critical reading of memoirs and creative works of Tibetans and Chinese, this book recounts how the potency of Tibet manifests itself in modern material culture concerning Tibet, which is interwoven with state ideology, politics of identity, imagination, nostalgia, forgetting, remembering, and earth-inspired transcendence. The physical place of Tibet is the antecedent point of contact for subsequent spiritual imaginations, acts of destruction and reconstruction, collective nostalgia, and delayed aesthetic and environmental awareness shown in the eco-religious acts of native Tibetans, Communist radical utopianism, former military officers’ recollections, Tibetan and Chinese artwork, and touristic consumption of the Tibetan landscape. By drawing connections between differences, dichotomies, and oppositions, this book explores the interiors of the diverse agentive modes of imaginations from which Tibet is imagined in China. On the theoretical front, this book attempts to bring forth a set of fresh perspectives on how a culturally and religiously specific landscape is antecedent to simultaneous processes of place-making, identity-making, and the bonding between place and people.

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Dan Smyer Yü, Center for Trans-Himalayan Studies;Yunnan Minzu University; China.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Chapter One. Introduction: Placiality of Tibet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter Two. Geopoetics of place, gods, and people in Sambha (སཾ་བྷ།) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Chapter Three. Confessions of an Inner Liberation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Chapter Four. Memorability of place among anti-traditionalists Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
Chapter Five. Touching the skin of modern Tibet in the New Tibetan Cinema Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
Chapter Six. Ensouling the Mountain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
Chapter Seven. Drifting in the Mirages of the Tibetan Landscape Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Chapter Eight. Conclusion – Mindscaping Tibetophilia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	212
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	246

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Libraries, Institutes, NGOs, Environmental organizations
Pages
- Front matter: 12
- Main content: 257
Keywords: Tibet; imagination; landscape; Ecotheology

eBook

Published: March 30, 2015
ISBN: 9781614514237

Hardcover

Published: March 30, 2015
ISBN: 9781614515531

Paperback

Published: June 20, 2016
ISBN: 9781614515623