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Author Desjarlais, Robert R.

Title Sensory biographies : lives and deaths among Nepal's Yolmo Buddhists / Robert Desjarilais
Published Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (x, 396 pages)
Series Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 2
Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 2.
Contents Machine generated contents note: Kuragraphy -- Hardship, Comfort -- Twenty-Seven Ways of Looking at Vision -- Startled into Alertness -- Theater of Voices -- "I've Gotten Old" -- Essays on Dying -- "Dying Is This" -- Painful Between -- Desperation -- Time of Dying -- Death Envisioned -- To Phungboche, by Force -- Staying Still -- Mirror of Deeds -- Here and There -- "So: Ragged Woman" -- Echoes of a Life -- Son's Death -- End of the Body -- Last Words
Summary Robert Desjarlais's graceful ethnography explores the life histories of two Yolmo elders, focusing on how particular sensory orientations and modalities have contributed to the making and the telling of their lives. These two are a woman in her late eighties known as Kisang Omu and a Buddhist priest in his mid-eighties known as Ghang Lama, members of an ethnically Tibetan Buddhist people whose ancestors have lived for three centuries or so along the upper ridges of the Yolmo Valley in north central Nepal
Analysis biographical profiles
biographical
buddhist priests
death and dying
death experience
ethnographers
ethnographic studies
gerontology
human struggles
interviews
life and death
life histories
life journey
life stories
nepal
nonfiction biography
physical senses
religious figures
sensory experiences
sociology
spiritual
subjective experience
tibetan buddhists
touching
vision
yolmo buddhists
yolmo elders
yolmo valley
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Ghang Lama.
Kisang Omu.
SUBJECT Ghang Lama fast
Kisang Omu fast
Subject Lamas -- Nepal -- Biography
Buddhists -- Nepal -- Biography
Death -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
Helambu Sherpa (Nepalese people) -- Religion
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
RELIGION -- Buddhism -- Tibetan.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Buddhists
Death -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism
Lamas
SUBJECT Nepal -- Religious life and customs
Subject Nepal
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520936744
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