Himalayan Nature: Representations and Reality - Softcover

Himalayan Nature: Representations and Reality

Soft cover. Zustand: New. ix, 242 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Preface / Erika Sandman & Riika J. Virtanen -- Himalaya-Workshop : opening address / Klaus Karttunen -- "Looking over at the Mountains" : sense of place in the Third Karmapa's "Songs of Experience" / Ruth Gamble -- Repkong Tantric practitioners and their environment : observing the vow of not taking life / Tiina Hyytiäinen -- Toes and heels tormented by the hardened snow / Klaus Karttunen -- Holy grounds : landscapes in Tibetan thangka paintings / Pekka Lehtisalo -- Pilgrimage to Brag dkar sprel rdzong : presentation and translation of a pilgrimage guide / Nakza Drolma (Zhuoma) -- The main factors of biodiversity changes in East Tibet / Juha-Pekka Reilin -- The nature-deities in Tibet : a discussion of the tale "The subduing and putting under oath of Tibet's malignant Iha'dre" in Padma bka'thang / Thupten K. Rikey -- Effects of urbanization on water quality of the Bagmati River in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal / Reena Amatya Shrestha, Xiang Huang & Mika Sillanpää -- Medicine in India and TIbet : reflections on Buddhism and nature / Jaakko Takkinen -- Making museum collections : missionary Hilja Heiskanen's Himalayan artefacts / Pilvi Vainonen -- Dhondup Gyal and nature : interpreting poetic images of wind and cloud in two Tibetan works -- Review article: Correctness and controversies in Asian historiography / Juha Janhunen. Artikel-Nr. PGtied83

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