Hidden Lands in Himalayan Myth and History

Frances Garrett is Associate Professor of Tibetan and Buddhist at the University of Toronto. She has published on intersections between tantric practice, ritual knowledge and medical theory, as well as on the Gesar epic.Geoffrey Samuel is Emeritus Professor at Cardiff University, Wales, U.K. and Honorary Associate at the University of Sydney, Australia, where he directs the Body, Health and Religion (BAHAR) Research Group. His academic career has been in social anthropology and religious studies. His current research interests include Tibetan yogic health practices, Tibetan medicine, and the dialogue between Buddhism and science. Elizabeth McDougal, PhD candidate (due 2020), University of Sydney, has two Masters in Buddhist Studies and Indian Philosophy from University of Sydney and Banaras Hindu University, respectively. She has worked as a Tibetan-to-English translator for ten years and published several articles on the modernization of Tibetan Buddhism.

• PrefaceGeoffrey Samuel, Frances Garrett and Elizabeth McDougalNote on the Locations of the sbas yulMapsPart 1: Introducing the sbas yulPhoto Essay: The Terrestrial Buddha Realm of sbas yul Padma bkod: A Visual PilgrimageIan Baker1 Hidden Lands of Tibet in Myth and HistoryGeoffrey SamuelPart 2: The sbas yul over Time: Historical Perspectives2 Healing Mountains and Hidden LandsFrances Garrett3 Did sbas yul Play a Part in the Development of Tibetan Book Culture?Hildegard Diemberger4 Early Echoes of sbas yul Padma bkod in the Lifestory of Thang stong rgyal poAnnie Heckman5 Padma bkod through the Lens of Two Pilgrimage Guidebooks: Walking the Body of Rdo rje phag moBarbara Hazelton6 “A Great and Small Padma bkod”: Guidebooks and Individual JourneysFranz-Karl Ehrhard7 Prophecy and Fantastical Reality in Sle lung Bzhad pa’i rdo rje’s Journey to Padma bkodTom Greensmith8 The Shapeshifting Goddess: The Consecration of Padma bkod’s Yang Sang Chu Region by the 20th-Century gter ston, Bdud ’joms drag sngags gling paElizabeth McDougalPart 3: The sbas yul in the Modern World: Ethnographic Perspectives9 The Arising of Padma bkod in the Western WorldSamuel Thévoz10 Voices from the Mountainside: Vernacular sbas yul in the Western HimalayaCallum Pearce11 Pachakshiri: A Little-Known Hidden Land between Tsa ri and Padma bkod in the Eastern HimalayaKerstin Grothmann12 How Is This Sacred Place Arrayed? Pacification, Increase, Magnetism, and Wrath in the Establishment of an Eastern Himalayan sbas yulAmelia HallPhoto Essay: Glimpses of a Hidden Land: The sbas yul of Yol moJon Kwan with Khenpo Nyima DondrupPart 4: Two Guidebooks to the Hidden Land of Padma Bkod’Ja’ tshon snying po’s Guidebook to the Hidden Land of Padma bkodTranslated by Barbara HazeltonBdud ’joms gling pa’s Hidden Sacred Land of Padma bkodTranslated by Barbara HazeltonIndex