Beginning -- Sahibs -- Sherpas -- Monks -- Death -- Men -- Counterculture -- Women -- Reconfigurations -- Tales -- Monasteries
Summary
Sherry Ortner is the first to integrate social scientific and historical modes of analysis in a study of the Sherpa monasteries and one of the very few to attempt such an account for Buddhist monasteries anywhere. Combining ethnographic and oral-historical methods, she scrutinizes the interplay of political and cultural factors in the events culminating in the foundings. [Publisher]
