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
Main Author: Desjarlais, Robert R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2003.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Kisang Omu
Ghang Lama
Kisang Omu.
Ghang Lama.
Lamas
Death > Religious aspects > Buddhism
Buddhists
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
RELIGION > Buddhism > Tibetan.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
Yolmo (Peuple du Nepal) > Religion.
Lamas (Bouddhisme) > Nepal > Biographies.
Helambu Sherpa (Nepalese people) > Religion.
Death > Religious aspects > Buddhism.
Buddhists > Nepal > Biography.
Lamas > Nepal > Biography.
Nepal
Nepal > Religious life and customs.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 priest in his mid-eighties known as Ghang Lama, members of an ethnically Tibetan Buddhist people whose ancestors have lived for three centuries or so along the upper ridges of the Yolmo Valley in north central Nepal.
Physical Description:1 online resource (406 pages).
ISBN:9780520936744

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