Hidden Lands in Himalayan Myth and History

Contents
Preface
Note on the Locations of the sbas yul
Maps
Editors and Contributors
Part 1 Introducing the sbas yul
Photo Essay The Terrestrial Buddha Realm of sbas yul Padma bkod: A Visual Pilgrimage
Chapter 1 Hidden Lands of Tibet in Myth and History
Part 2 The sbas yul over Time: Historical Perspectives
Chapter 2 Healing Mountains and Hidden Lands
Chapter 3 Did sbas yul Play a Part in the Development of Tibetan Book Culture?
Chapter 4 Early Echoes of sbas yul Padma bkod in the Lifestory of Thang stong rgyal po
Chapter 5 Padma bkod through the Lens of Two Pilgrimage Guidebooks: Walking the Body of Rdo rje phag mo
Chapter 6 “A Great and Small Padma bkod”: Guidebooks and Individual Journeys
Chapter 7 Prophecy and Fantastical Reality in Sle lung Bzhad pa’i rdo rje’s Journey to Padma bkod
Chapter 8 The Shapeshifting Goddess: The Consecration of Padma bkod’s Yang Sang Chu Region by the 20th-Century gter ston, Bdud ’joms drag sngags gling pa
Part 3 The sbas yul in the Modern World: Ethnographic Perspectives
Chapter 9 The Arising of Padma bkod in the Western World
Chapter 10 Voices from the Mountainside: Vernacular sbas yul in the Western Himalaya
Chapter 11 Pachakshiri: A Little-Known Hidden Land between Tsa ri and Padma bkod in the Eastern Himalaya
Chapter 12 How Is This Sacred Place Arrayed? Pacification, Increase, Magnetism, and Wrath in the Establishment of an Eastern Himalayan sbas yul
Photo Essay Glimpses of a Hidden Land: The sbas yul of Yol mo
Part 4 Two Guidebooks to the Hidden Land of Padma Bkod
’Ja’ tshon snying po’s Guidebook to the Hidden Land of Padma bkod
Bdud ’joms gling pa’s Hidden Sacred Land of Padma bkod
Index