Himalayan nature
Subtitle: representations and reality
By: edited by Erika Sandman and Riika J. Virtanen
Series: Studia Orientalia -- vol. 109; Studia Orientalia -- 109.
Publisher: Finnish Oriental Society
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Helsinki
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9789519380759
Subjects: Nature and civilization; Geography; Environmental conditions; Ecology
Notes: "Most of the papers ... were presented at the ... workshop that took place on 6-7 March 2008 at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, University of Helsinki": Pref.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface  -- Erika Sandman & Riika J. Virtanen; title: Himalaya-Workshop : opening address  -- Klaus Karttunen; title: "Looking over at the Mountains" : sense of place in the Third Karmapa's "Songs of Experience"  -- Ruth Gamble; title: Repkong Tantric practitioners and their environment : observing the vow of not taking life  -- Tiina Hyytiäinen; title: Toes and heels tormented by the hardened snow  -- Klaus Karttunen; title: Holy grounds : landscapes in Tibetan thangka paintings  -- Pekka Lehtisalo; title: Pilgrimage to Brag dkar sprel rdzong : presentation and translation of a pilgrimage guide  -- Nakza Drolma (Zhuoma); title: The main factors of biodiversity changes in East Tibet  -- Juha-Pekka Reilin; title: The nature-deities in Tibet : a discussion of the tale "The subduing and putting under oath of Tibet's malignant Iha'dre" in Padma bka'thang  -- Thupten K. Rikey; title: Effects of urbanization on water quality of the Bagmati River in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal  -- Reena Amatya Shrestha, Xiang Huang & Mika Sillanpää; title: Medicine in India and TIbet : reflections on Buddhism and nature  -- Jaakko Takkinen; title: Making museum collections : missionary Hilja Heiskanen's Himalayan artefacts  -- Pilvi Vainonen; title: Dhondup Gyal and nature : interpreting poetic images of wind and cloud in two Tibetan works --; title: Review article:; title: Correctness and controversies in Asian historiography -- Juha Janhunen.