ABSTRACT
This chapter explores eco-aesthetic meanings of the intersections of natural landscape, religious practices and home-making in Sambha, a Tibetan farming village nestled on an alluvial fan of a dried tributary of a large river. In the context of the Tibetan landscape, this earth subjectivity is inextricably intertwined and interwoven with collective human subjectivity rested upon human social activities. A human mindscape is in no way separated from the very landscape with which it is always in sensorial, emotional, memorial and spiritual contact. In the popular realm, travel writings and pilgrimage narratives all attest the sublimity or the spiritual prowess of the Tibetan landscape. It affords its visitors to see the sublimity of their mindscapes enveloped in its majestic mountains, expansive grasslands or idyllic villages in the embrace of earthly gods and spirits. A power place demands a power language to have its story told. Sambha is only one of the many earthworks of the earth and human ingenuity.
