High Religion : : A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism / / Sherry B. Ortner.

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 soc...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History ; 9
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Physical Description:1 online resource (269 p.)
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