TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mckay, Alex
TI  - Kailas histories: Renunciate traditions and the construction of himalayan sacred geography  
SN  - 9789360807610
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Manohar
KW  -  Hindu pilgrims and pilgrimages--China--Kailas
KW  - Tibet region--Religious life and customs
KW  - Mount. Tibet Autonomous Region (China)--History
N2  - Tibet's Mount Kailas is one of the world's great pilgrimage centres, renowned as an ancient sacred site that embodies a universal sacrality. But Kailas Histories: Renunciate Traditions and the Construction of Himalayan Sacred Geography demonstrates that this understanding is a recent construction by British colonial, Hindu modernist, and New Age interests. Using multiple sources, including fieldwork, Alex McKay describes how the early Indic vision of a heavenly mountain named Kailas became identified with actual mountains
ER  -