Mindscaping the Landscape of Tibet: Place, Memorability, Ecoaesthetics

Acknowledgements
Contents
Chapter One Introduction: Placiality of Tibet
	1.1 Contextualizing Tibet as a “Hot Spot” and a “Power Place”
	1.2 Mindscaping the Tibetan landscape
		1.2.1 Mindscape
		1.2.2 Landscape, place, and placiality
		1.2.3 Eco-aesthetics
		1.2.4 Affordances
	1.3 A geographic navigation of my fieldwork
		1.3.1 Beijing
		1.3.2 Qinghai
		1.3.3 Lhasa and Shangrila
	1.4 Mapping the book
Chapter Two Geopoetics of place, gods, and people in Sambha (སཾ་བྷ།)
	2.1 Eco-aesthetics of an outsider looking in
	2.2 Geopoetic affordances of the Tibetan landscape
	2.3 Sambha mandalized
	2.4 Inter-dwelling with gods and spirits
	2.5 Ancestral rootedness of Sambha and beyond
	2.6 “Place has its own being…”
Chapter Three Confessions of an Inner Liberation
	3.1 The second Long March
	3.2 Elation and desolation in the eco-sublime Tibetan landscape
	3.3 Communist “liberation theology”
	3.4 Puzzling statistics and the social scene of Old Lhasa
	3.5 Searching for serfs in the midst of the “black bones” and the “white bones”
	3.6 The clash of Marxist class struggle and Buddhist fate
	3.7 Reminiscing about Old Tibet’s enchantments
Chapter Four Memorability of place among anti-traditionalists
	4.1 “Pulling one hair moves the entire body”
	4.2 Forgetting as Remembering
	4.3 Subalternity of radical modernism
	4.4 Pathogenic force of modernity
	4.5 Placial antecedence of the Subaltern
Chapter Five Touching the skin of modern Tibet in the New Tibetan Cinema
	5.1 Initiating cinematic landscape of a Buddhist Tibet
		5.1.1 Repairing Buddhist moral fabric in The Grassland
		5.1.2 Landscaping Buddhism in The Silent Holy Stone
	5.2 Touching the Skin of the Modern Tibetan Landscape
		5.2.1 Rescuing the Buddhist “soul” of the nation in The Search
		5.2.2 A modern Tibet in Old Dog
	5.3 After-effects and affordances of the New Tibetan Cinema
Chapter Six Ensouling the Mountain
	6.1 “Wherever I travel I can’t wait to rush home!”
	6.2 “You know the origin of my ancestors”
	6.3 “Machen Bomra [??????????????] is a living being”
	6.4 “Bury them here…”
	6.5 “Eco-aesthetics of Touching and Being Touched”
Chapter Seven Drifting in the Mirages of the Tibetan Landscape
	7.1 Tibet, branding a mindscape of utopia
		7.1.1 An American experience
		7.1.2 A Chinese experience
	7.2 Tibet, branded as a dreamworld
	7.3 Seeking material empowerments in the dreamworld
	7.4 Drifting in the Mirages of the Tibetan Landscape
		7.4.1 Geo-poetic affordance
		7.4.2 Utopian attributes of Tibet
		7.4.3 Escape, self-exile and metamorphosis in “magical Tibet”
Chapter Eight Conclusion – Mindscaping Tibetophilia
	8.1 The missing Orient in Post-Orientalism
	8.2 Tibet as a geopsychic terrain
	8.3 Tibetophilia, topophilia, and eco-aesthetics revisited
	8.4 An anthropological mindscape of Tibet
References
Index