The Sacred Myth of Shangri-La: Tibet, Travel Writing and the Western Creation of Sacred Landscape
Bishop, Peter
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Book ID : 16637
ISBN-10 : 81-87138-21-1 / 8187138211
ISBN-13 : 978-81-87138-21-1 / 9788187138211
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2000
Edition : (First Indian Edition)
Language : English
xii, 308p., Maps, Bib., Index, 21 cm.
CONTENTS
CONTENTS:- 1. An Imaginative Geography; 2. Tibet Discovered (1773-92); 3. Inventing the Threshold (1792-1842); 4. The Axis Mundi Appears(mid-nineteenth century); 5. Outside Time and Space (1857-1914); 6. Lost Horizons: From Sacred Place to Utopia (1904-59); 7. Conclusion: The Empty Vessel.
DESCRIPTION
Each generation creates its own Tibet, Drawing upon accounts of Tibetan and Himalayan travel and exploration, both fact and fiction, the author surveys the many ways in which these myths have developed and changed form the late eighteenth- century to the present day; and he analyses these myths from a Jungian standpoint. Altogether, this is a masterful and persuasive study of the phenomenology of Western fantasy-making.
