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This volume of papers covers recent developments in the eastern Tibetan area of Amdo (a mdo), including social and religious culture, art, economics, and education. The collection is the fifth volume of the proceedings of the ninth seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies held in Leiden in 2000. (Ben Deitle 2006-05-15)
<p>An introduction by Toni Huber to Tendzin Chökyi Lodrö's <em>Guidebook to Laphyi (La phyi gnas yig)</em> and Huber's critical edition of the text. (Steven Weinberger 2006-12-19)</p>
<p>A review article by Toni Huber of Rebecca Redwood French's <em>The Golden Yoke: The Legal Cosmology of Buddhist Tibet</em></p>
<p>These are the minutes from the business meeting held on June 29, 2000, at the 9th seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies in Leiden, the Netherlands. (Ben Deitle 2006-03-09)</p>
<p><strong>Creator's Description</strong>: Following Chinese occupation, all types of ritual territories recognized by Tibetans across the Tibetan plateau either became defunct, or went into abeyance and then revived -- often spectacularly -- in modified forms. This study deals with an example of non-revival and strategic withdrawal from one regionally and locally important Tibetan ritual territory. It provides a case study of developments up to 1995 at the mountain known as "Eastern Conch Mountain" (Shar dung ri) in A mdo Shar khog. The study documents why all major pilgrimage activities around the mountain were left in abeyance in spite of the real possibilities Tibetans had for reviving them once again. Important factors in this process are identified in the dynamics of the local post-1980 revival of Tibetan religion in Shar khog, changing attitudes towards demanding ritual practices, and the regime of modern developments that have been vigorously promoted around Eastern Conch Mountain by the Chinese state, including the banishment of lepers, tourism, mountaineering, nature conservation, and efforts to inscribe seminal aspects of modern Chinese nationalism, such as the Long March, upon an older Tibetan cultural landscape.</p>