Long lives and untimely deaths : life-span concepts and longevity practices among Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills, India / / by Barbara Gerke.
Longevity and long-life practices have been a pan-Tibetan concern for a very long time, but have hardly been studied by anthropologists. This book presents ethnographic accounts and textual material demonstrating how Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills, India, view the life-span and map out certain lif...
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| Superior document: | Brill's Tibetan studies library, v. 27 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Jazyk: | English |
| Edice: | Brill's Tibetan studies library ;
v. 27. |
| Fyzický popis: | 1 online resource (386 p.) |
| Poznámky: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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- pt. 1. Ethnographic settings and analytical frameworks
- pt. 2. The field site and Tibetan areas of knowledge
- pt. 3. The life-span and life-forces in Tibetan medical contexts
- pt. 4. The life-span in astrological and divinatory context
- pt. 5. Tibetan Buddhist long-life empowerments.