Contents: Landscape, mountain cult, conversion and pilgrimage – A Sketch of the religious and Historical Context – Bon, Zhangzhung, Tibet, Nepal and Dolpo – Opening Sacred Grounds – Bon Pilgrimages in Dolpo – Transformational Processes in the Bon pilgrimages – The main protagonists and the crucial teachings in the propagation of Bon in Dolpo.
The anthropologist Marietta Kind gained her PhD at the Universities of Zurich and Oxford. She has worked as a lecturer and research fellow at the Ethnographic Museum of Zurich University. With her Tapriza NGO she supports a school in Dolpo and the cultural heritage of this region. Her latest research project at Bern University is concerned with second generation Tibetans in Switzerland and their relation to Buddhism.
«Das Buch gibt einen lebendigen Einblick in das Leben der Menschen
von Dolpo. Wer sich für Tibet und seine Geschichte interessiert,
wird hier viel interessante Information finden, die sonst kaum
zugänglich sind (sic).» (Peter Eisenegger, tibetfocus 117,
2012)
«The work is extensively and well illustrated; indeed, the
production values are high, and the text is enlivened by the
author’s scholarly but vivid accounts of pilgrimages and local
individuals drawn from her own fieldwork. Descriptions of temples,
landscape, and suchlike are extremely well presented. There are
seperate maps of Dolpo and the wider region included, along with
various glossaries of people, places, Tibetan, and local terms. Any
serious library in the field should include this work, and it
should be of interest to students and scholars in related areas.»
(Alex McKay, Asian Ethnology 72, 2013/1)
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