High Religion A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism

Name: High Religion A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism
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ISBN: 9780691028439

ISBN-10: 0691028435

ISBN-13: 9780691028439

Edition: 1990

Authors: Sherry B. Ortner

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An eminent anthropologist examines the foundings of the first celibate Buddhist monasteries among the Sherpas of Nepal in the early twentieth century--a religious development that was a major departure from "folk" or "popular" Buddhism. 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. Her work constitutes a major advance both in our knowledge of Sherpa Buddhism and in the…

Book details

List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 9/21/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 269
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.17" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Note to the Reader



Beginning



Sahibs



Sherpas



Monks



Death



Men



Counterculture



Women



Reconfigurations



Epilogue



Tales



Monasteries


Notes


References Cited


Index