Sensory biographies : lives and deaths among Nepal's Yolmo Buddhists /

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Robert Desjarlais's graceful ethnography explores the life histories of two Yolmo elders, focusing on how particular sensory orientations and modalities have contributed to the making and the telling of their lives. These two are a woman in her late eighties known as Kisang Omu and a Buddhist p...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Desjarlais, Robert R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2003.
Series:Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 2.
Subjects:
Ghang Lama.
Kisang Omu.
Ghang Lama
Kisang Omu
Lamas > Nepal > Biography.
Buddhists > Nepal > Biography.
Death > Religious aspects > Buddhism.
Helambu Sherpa (Nepalese people) > Religion.
Lamas (Bouddhisme) > Népal > Biographies.
Yolmo (Peuple du Népal) > Religion.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
RELIGION > Buddhism > Tibetan.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Buddhists
Death > Religious aspects > Buddhism
Lamas
Nepal > Religious life and customs.
Nepal
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Kuragraphy
  • Hardship, Comfort
  • Twenty-Seven Ways of Looking at Vision
  • Startled into Alertness
  • Theater of Voices
  • "I've Gotten Old"
  • Essays on Dying
  • "Dying Is This"
  • Painful Between
  • Desperation
  • Time of Dying
  • Death Envisioned
  • To Phungboche, by Force
  • Staying Still
  • Mirror of Deeds
  • Here and There
  • "So: Ragged Woman"
  • Echoes of a Life
  • Son's Death
  • End of the Body
  • Last Words.

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