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Title Fate of the lhapa / Documentary Educational Resources ; [presented by] Indigenous Lenses
Published Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources, ©2007-2008

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Description 1 online resource (1 streaming video (63 min.))
Series Ethnographic video online
Summary (Producer) This is about the last three Tibetan shamans (lhapas) living in a Tibetan refugee camp in Nepal. With no other descendants to carry on their healing practices and a younger generation acculturating and modernizing, they are practicing an endangered tradition
Analysis Tibetan
Cultural change and history
Buddhism
Refugee camps
Traditional medicine
Healers
Spiritual leaders
Harmelt, John
Notes Spoken Tibetan with English subtitles
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Subject Medicine, Tibetan.
Refugees -- Nepal
Shamanism -- Nepal
Medicine, Tibetan.
Refugees.
Shamanism.
Nepal.
Genre/Form Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Nonfiction films.
Streaming video
Form Streaming video
Author Sifers, Sarah
Documentary Educational Resources (Firm)