Kailas : on pilgrimage to the sacred mountain of Tibet / by 200290 Johnson, Russell, Moran, Kerry

Victims of "adaptation": climate change, sacred mountains, and perverse resilience by Adam Dunstan

“…Drawing on ethnographic and sociolinguistic research in northern Arizona regarding artificial snowmaking at a ski resort on a sacred mountain, I elucidate resort supporters' and others' attempts to frame snowmaking as a sustainable adaptation to drought (and, implicitly, climate change). …”
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Evaluating the effectiveness of vegetation conservation on a sacred mountain in western China by Zhaoyang Cao, Liang Dou, Nan Yang, Kai Zhang, Bin Wang, Yu Xu, Jianghong Ran

“…Thus, we evaluated the effectiveness of vegetation conservation on a Tibetan sacred mountain in Yajiang County, Sichuan, China, by investigating species richness and the structural attributes of higher vascular plant communities on and around the sacred mountain from April to June 2009. …”
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SACRED MOUNTAINS IN THE CONTEXT OF MODERN NATION: THE POLITICAL DIMENSION OF LANDSCAPE IN MONGOLIA1 by Łukasz Smyrski

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Intermediality and Immersion in Gaudenzio Ferrari’s "Adoration of the Magi" in Chapel V of the Sacred Mountain of Varallo by Fabio Tononi

“…It does so by focusing on the vision of the Adoration of the Magi that Gaudenzio Ferrari realised in Chapel V of the Sacred Mountain of Varallo. As suggested in the handbook Garden of Prayer, which stresses the relation between the beholder’s mind and the stories perceived, the dialogue among the arts converging in Gaudenzio’s image serves a specific purpose, namely, to facilitate immersion in the scene observed. …”
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Sacred Mountaineering and the Imagery of Ascent from Catalonia to Provence, c. 1370–c. 1520 by Achim Timmermann

“…Focusing in particular on the relationship between a chosen sequence of pictorial narratives and their specific geophysical environment, this study is meant as a contribution to both the current debate on the furnishing, lay-out and iconography of the sacred mountain landscapes of premodern Europe and to the nascent field of Mountaineering Culture Studies.…”
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Examining a bias in evaluating conservation effectiveness for Galliformes on a typical Tibetan sacred mountain by Yu Xu, Kai Zhang, Bin Wang, Liang Dou, Nan Yang, Jianghong Ran, Shirong Liu

“…Tibetan sacred mountains, the unique landforms influenced by the Buddhist religion in many Himalayan regions, are suggested to have great potential for preserving animal diversity. …”
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Montagne dangereuse ou montagne en danger? Usages politiques, magico-religieux et touristiques du Chikon Tokoxo (Sierra Mazatèque, Mexique) by Magali Demanget

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Mountain Graticules: Bridging Latitude, Longitude, Altitude, and Historicity to Biocultural Heritage by Fausto O. Sarmiento, Nobuko Inaba, Yoshihiko Iida, Masahito Yoshida

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Simbolna krajina na širšem območju zgornje Vipavske doline<br>The Symbolic Landscape in the Wider Area of the Upper Vipava Valley</br> by Tina Kompare

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La montaña y su impronta en la grandes tradiciones de sabiduría de la Antigüedad by María Teresa Román López

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Tibetan Sacred Sites: Understanding the Traditional Management System and Its Role in Modern Conservation by Xiaoli Shen, Zhi Lu, Shengzhi Li, Nyima Chen

“…Monasteries had an essential role in protecting sacred mountains; 73.1% assigning specific personnel to manage their sacred mountains, and 63.9% patrolling their mountains. …”
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Wutaishan Shrines as Subjects of Buddhist Heritage Research by Bair Ts. Gomboev

“…In Buddhist religious practice, Wutaishan as a symbol of the five sacred mountains of China has long enjoyed fame among pilgrims as a holiest place in East and Central Asia subsequent to Lhasa (Tibet). …”
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The Nenets’ Sacred Places: The singing mountain Yanganya Pe by Roza Laptander

“…In the Polar Ural Mountains there are several sacred mountains that are especially revered by the Nenets. …”
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Yamaubamotívumok értelmezése a japán népmesékben és legendákban by Melinda Papp

“…A close examination of yamauba motifs shows that yamauba, too, is linked with ancient beliefs regarding fertility and agricultural production as well as with the cult of sacred mountains. In its various appearances, the yamauba, like many other Japanese yōkai, is distinguished by a double character ranging from a fearful monster bringing misfortune to humans to a spirit bringing good luck to those who help her. …”
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Huacas olvidadas y cerros santos: Apuntes metodológicos sobre la cartografía sagrada en los Andes del sur de Bolivia by Pablo Cruz

“…<br>A combination of early colonial sources and local archaeological and ethnographic data enable this paper to identify the cases of mountsPotosí and Porco, Quiquijana, and Poder de Dios as pre-Columbian huacas and sacred mountains in the region of Potosí and Chuquisaca (Bolivia). …”
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Musefication of the architectural legacy of Medieval Alania by Treyman Julia

“…It can be represented in the form of a carcass structure consisting of sacral objects (such as sacred mountains, trees, groves, springs, lakes, separate stones, caves etc.). …”
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Planned maintenance for architectural heritage. Experiences in progress from 3D survey to intervention programmes through HBIM by Marco Zerbinatti, Francesca Matrone, Andrea Lingua

“…The main focus of the project is a UNESCO heritage site: the “Sacri Monti” (Sacred Mountains) of Italy and those in Canton of Ticino (Switzerland), with the need for a common and shared conservation plan.…”
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Donne e spazi sacri in Giappone: culto e miniature del Fuji a Edo by Rosa Caroli

“…It was later extended to most of the sacred mountains, paralleling the association between impurity and blood of parturition and menstruation. …”
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‘Thousand Years of Charm’: Exploring the Aesthetic Characteristics of the Mount Tai Landscape from the Cross-Textual Perspective by Ying Yu, Bing Liu, Lin Ma, Xin Han, Taeyeol Jung

“…With accelerating urbanization, Mount Tai is increasingly at risk of homogenization with other scenic spots, losing its landscape aesthetic characteristics as ‘the Most Revered of the Five Sacred Mountains’, which poses a growing threat to the long-term sustainable development of Mount Tai. …”
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