TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gerke,Barbara
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Long lives and untimely deaths: life-span concepts and longevity practices among Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills, India 
T2  - Brill's Tibetan studies library,
AV  - DS432.T5 G47 2012eb
U1  - 305.895/4105414 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Tibetans
KW  - India
KW  - Darjeeling (District)
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Religion
KW  - Longevity
KW  - Life span, Productive
KW  - Old age
KW  - Darjeeling (India : District)
KW  - Religious life and customs
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10524306
ER  -