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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©1990 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (269 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Orthography
- Dramatis Personae
- Chronology of Sherpa History
- CHAPTER I Introduction: The Project, the People, and the Problem
- CHAPTER II The Early History of the Sherpas: Fraternal Contradictions
- CHAPTER III The Founding of the First Sherpa Temple: Political Contradictions
- CHAPTER IV The Meaning of Temple Founding: Cultural Schemas
- CHAPTER V The Sherpas and the State
- CHAPTER VI The Political Economy of Monastery Foundings
- CHAPTER VII The Big People Found the Monasteries: Legitimation and Self-Worth
- CHAPTER VIII The Small People
- CHAPTER IX Monks and Nuns
- CHAPTER X Conclusions: Sherpa History and a Theory of Practice
- APPENDIX I Two Zombie Stories of Early Khumbu
- APPENDIX II Addendum to the Tengboche Chayik
- Notes
- Glossary
- References
- Index