The diamond path Tibetan and Mongolian myth
A dramatic series that captures, culture by culture, the information that never makes it into the history books: strange stories, mystic rites, angry gods, vision quests.
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Amsterdam :
Time-Life Books,
©1998.
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| Series: | Myth and mankind.
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Table of Contents:
- Living tradition: Secret land of Shangri-La
- Coming of Buddhism
- Warriors of the Steppe
- Palaces of calm
- Sacred home of gods and demons: Enlightened beings
- Birth of Shenrap
- How Shenrap spread the holy word
- Exorcism of Tibet
- Lord of compassion
- Pinning of the demoness
- Sacred scrolls
- Scholars and magicians
- Mountains of supreme bliss
- Ritual and faith
- How the world began: Order hatched from chaos
- Monkey ancestor
- Fierce guardians of the waters
- Demon trapped in the landscape
- When dark rose up against light
- Poisoned land
- Sacred history of marriage
- Lords of the dark
- Visitors from heaven: Down from the mountain
- Cutting the cord
- Kings of the spirit world
- Idol of sacred wood
- Epic of Gesar of Ling
- Heaven on earth
- Tales from the Steppes: How the world began
- Creation of people
- Seven gods who came to earth
- Destruction of the Mangases
- Worshippers of fire
- Spirits of the red rock
- Images of dead ancestors
- Travellers in the spirit world
- Genghis Khan, empire builder
- Europe's myth of Mongolia
- Living Buddha
- Legacy of the Asian heartland.
