Long lives and untimely deaths [electronic resource] : life-span concepts and longevity practices among Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills, India / by Barbara Gerke.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 27.Publication details: Boston : Brill, c2012.Description: xxiii, 362 p. : ill. (some col.), mapsSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.895/4105414 23
LOC classification:
  • DS432.T5 G47 2012eb
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Contents:
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.
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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.

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