High religion: a cultural and political history of Sherpa Buddhism
Ortner, Sherry B
₹ 445.00
Examines the foundings of the first celibate Buddhist monasteries among the Sherpas of Nepal in the early twentieth century--a religious development that a major departure from folk of popular Buddhism. Combining ethnographic and oral history methods, the auther scrutinizes the interplay of political and cultural factors in the events culminating in the foundings.;
ISBN 13: 9788120809499
ISBN 10: 8120809491
Year: 1992
Language: ENGLISH
Pages etc.: xxiv,245p., ind., 23cm.
Binding: Hardbound
Subject(s): Buddhism
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