Land of Pure Vision: The Sacred Geography of Tibet and the Himalaya

Selected Bibliography

119 Religion and Landscape in the Himalaya and Tibet There is an extensive literature on spiritual landscapes in the Himalaya and Tibet that has informed my thoughts about sacred places and the photographs I make of them. Some essential titles are listed below for those wishing to delve deeper into the subject. Baker, Ian. The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Secret Place. New York: Penguin, 2004. Bernbaum, Edwin. The Way to Shambala: A Search for the Mythical Kingdom beyond the Himalayas. Boston: Shambala, 2001. Bhardwaj, Surinder. Hindu Places of Pilgrimage in India: A Study in Cultural Geography. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 2003. Bishop, Peter. The Myth of Shangri La: Tibet, Travel Writing, and the Western Creation of Sacred Landscape. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. Doctor, Andreas. Tibetan Treasure Literature. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion, 2005. Dowman, Keith. The Sacred Life of Tibet. London: Thorsons, 1998. Eck, Diana. India: A Sacred Geography. New York: Three Rivers, 2013. Feldhouse, Anne. Connected Places: Region, Pilgrimage, and Geographical Imagination in India. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Goldstein, Melvin, and Matthew Kapstein, eds. Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Halkias, Georgios. Luminous Bliss: A Religious History of Pure Land Literature in Tibet. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2012. Huber, Toni, ed. Sacred Spaces and Powerful Places in Tibetan Culture. Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1999. Lopez, Donald. Prisoners of Shangri La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Ortner, Sherry. High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989. Ramble, Charles. The Navel and the Demoness: Tibetan Buddhism and Civil Religion in Highland Nepal. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Sax, William. Mountain Goddess: Gender and Politics in a Himalayan Pilgrimage. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Shahi, Surendra, Christian Ratsch, and Claudia Muller-Ebeling. Shamanism and Tantra in the Himalayas. Rochester, NY: Inner Traditions, 2002. Singh, Rana. Sacred Geography of Goddesses in India. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010. ———, ed. The Spirit and Power of Place. Varanasi: Banaras Hindu University, 1994. Slusser, Mary. Nepal Mandala: A Cultural Study of the Kathmandu Valley. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982. Snellgrove, David. Buddhist Himalaya: Travels and Studies in Quest of the Origins and Nature of Tibetan Religion. Bangkok: Orchid Books, 2012. Selected Bibliography 120 Thubron, Colin. To a Mountain in Tibet. New York: HarperCollins, 2011. Thurman, Robert, and Tad Wise. Circling the Sacred Mountain: A Spiritual Adventure through the Himalayas. New York: Bantam, 2000. Landscape and Place Geographers and landscape scholars have helped shape the way I see and photograph the world. A few seminal titles are listed here. Casey, Edward. Representing Place: Landscape Paintings and Maps. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. Conzen, Michael. The Making of the American Landscape. New York: Routledge, 1994. Cosgrove, Denis, and Stephen Daniels. The Iconography of Landscape. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Duncan, James, and David Ley. Place/Culture/Representation. New York: Routledge, 1993. Entrekin, J. Nicholas. The Betweenness of Place: Towards a Geography of Modernity. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. Gregory, Derek. Geographical Imaginations. New York: WileyBlackwell , 1994. Groth, Paul, and Todd Bressi. Understanding Ordinary Landscapes. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. Jackson, John Brinckerhoff. A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994. Jackson, Peter. Maps of Meaning. London: Unwin Hyman, 1989. Lowenthal, David. The Past Is Foreign Country. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Malpas, Jeff. The Place of Landscape. Boston: MIT Press, 2011. Massey, Diane. Space, Place, and Gender. Cambridge: Polity, 1994. Relph, Edward. Place and Placeness. London: Pion, 1976. Tuan, Yi Fu. Humanist Geography: An Individual’s Search for Meaning. Staunton, VA: George F. Thompson, 2012. ———. Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes, and Values. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. Tuan, Yi Fu, and Martha Strawn. Religion: From Place to Placelessness. Chicago: Center for American Places, 2010. Wallach, Bret. Understanding the Cultural Landscape. New York: Guilford, 2005. ...