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An Atlas of the Himalayas by a 19th Century Tibetan Lama: A Journey of Discovery: Brill's Tibetan Studies Library, cartea 45

Autor Diana Lange
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 iul 2020
Diana Lange's patient investigations have, in this wonderful piece of detective work, solved the mysteries of six extraordinary panoramic maps of routes across Tibet and the Himalayas, clearly hand-drawn in the late 1850s by a local artist, known as the British Library's Wise Collection. Diana Lange now reveals not only the previously unknown identity of the Scottish colonial official who commissioned the maps from a Tibetan Buddhist lama, but also the story of how the Wise Collection came to be in the British Library. The result is both a spectacular illustrated ethnographic atlas and a unique compendium of knowledge concerning the mid-19th century Tibetan world, as well as a remarkable account of an academic journey of discovery. It will entertain and inform anyone with an interest in this fascinating region.This large format book is lavishly illustrated in colour and includes four separate large foldout maps.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004414938
ISBN-10: 9004414932
Greutate: 2.86 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Brill's Tibetan Studies Library


Cuprins

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Note on Transliteration

1 The Wise Collection: An Overview
1.1Key Data
1.2Cataloguing in the British Library
1.3Overview of the Maps and Drawings (Sorted by the BL Shelfmarks)
1.4Dating the Material

2 The Wise Collection: Reading Maps and Drawings

3 The Wise Collection: A Biography

4 The Wise Collection Key Players: William Edmund Hay and the Tibetan Lama
4.1Hay’s Way to the Western Himalayas
4.2Hay in Kullu
4.3“A Very Fair Draughtsman”: The Lama from Lhasa

5 Historical Background
5.1British Exploration of Tibet in the Mid-nineteenth Century
5.2The Tibetan Perspective
5.3Knowledge Production in the Nineteenth Century

6 Peoples and Costumes of the Himalayas

7 Putting Lhasa on the Map
7.1Potala and Surroundings
7.2Jokhang Temple and Surroundings

8 Places and Events in Lhasa
8.1Néchung State Oracle
8.2Ache Lhamo Performance at Tsémönling Monastery
8.3Rope Sliding at the Potala Shöl Area
8.4A Kalachakra Ceremony in the Potala Déyangshar
8.5A Governmental Ritual in the Chinese Guandi Temple (Gesar Lhakhang)
8.6Disposing of the Dead at Lhasa
8.7Sharing Knowledge on Religion
8.8Visual Narratives on Tibetan Wedding Ceremonies

9 Journey to the South
9.1The Eastern Kyichu Valley
9.2Samyé Monastery and Surroundings
9.3Ceremonies at Samyé Monastery
9.4The Northern Yarlung Valley
9.5The Chonggyé Valley and Southern Borderlands

10 Journey to the West
10.1The Western Kyichu Valley
10.2Yamdrok Lake and Surroundings
10.3Gyantsé and the Nyang Valley
10.4Shigatse and Surroundings
10.5Lhatsé, Shelkar and Dingri
10.6From Ngamring to Saga
10.7Tradün and Surroundings
10.8Lake Manasarowar and Surroundings
10.9Mount Kailash and Surroundings
10.10Gartok and Gar Gunsa
10.11Western Tibetan Borderlands
10.12The Lama’s Journey to Kullu

11 Travelling in the West: The Ladakh Indus Valley and Zangskar Valley
11.1The Ladakh Indus Valley
11.2The Zangskar Valley

12 Decoding the Wise Collection

Glossary
List of Tibetan Words
Bibliography
Index

Notă biografică

Diana Lange, Ph.D. (2008), Humboldt University Berlin, is a Research Associate at that university. Her research is located in Area Studies (Asia) with a specialisation in history of knowledge and exploration, material and visual cultures studies and cultural interactions.

Recenzii

"No archive is perfect. No archive story is perfect either, but Diana Lange's ‘Journey of discovery’ comes close.(...) Highly readable, expertly crafted and based on fieldwork experience, linguistic and anthropological skills and a wide range of archival scholarship, Lange's book is the thrilling story of her quest as much as a deep and very compelling analysis of the lama's pictorial cartography. Far from a mere collection and comment of material, it immediately appears as a multifaceted and thoughtprovoking reflection on the way geographical knowledge is collected and constructed, translated, forgotten or re-discovered. As such, it does not only relate to the European gaze on Tibet and the Himalayas in the 19th century, but proves an important contribution to the study of pre-20th century Asian maps and the question of geographical representation more generally." - Felix de Montety, Université Grenoble Alpes, France, Journal of Cartography 81 (2023).
"Diana Lange's study of the unique maps of 19th century Tibet found in the British Library's Wise collection is an absolute must for every Asian studies library and serious private collection. It is an outstanding and highly readable work that will be enjoyed by students, specialists and the general reader alike." - Alex McKay, IIAS Leiden
"By unraveling the process that led to the production of these geographic paintings Diana Lange was able to give an enlightening analysis of the complex social, cultural and political context in which these beautiful artefacts were created. By investigating their subsequent history she was also able to give a compelling exploration of the process that led them to come to England and become part of the Wise collection." - Hildegard Diemberger, University of Cambridge
"As there are few scholarly investigations of Tibetan mapmaking, Lange’s monograph stands out as a substantial contribution to this emerging discourse. (...) An Atlas of the Himalayas by a 19th Century Tibetan Lama will have great appeal to anyone working on nineteenth-century Inner Asian and Himalayan geography, ethnohistory, visual culture, and cartography." - Melissa R. Kerin, Washington and Lee University, in: The Journal of Asian Studies