TY - BOOK AU - Gerke,Barbara ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Long lives and untimely deaths: life-span concepts and longevity practices among Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills, India T2 - Brill's Tibetan studies library, AV - DS432.T5 G47 2012 U1 - 305.895/4105414 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Boston PB - Brill KW - Tibetans KW - India KW - Darjeeling (District) KW - Social conditions KW - Religion KW - Longevity KW - Life span, Productive KW - Old age KW - Darjeeling (India : District) KW - Religious life and customs KW - Social life and customs KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; pt. 1. Ethnographic settings and analytical frameworks -- pt. 2. The field site and Tibetan areas of knowledge -- pt. 3. The life-span and life-forces in Tibetan medical contexts -- pt. 4. The life-span in astrological and divinatory context -- pt. 5. Tibetan Buddhist long-life empowerments; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=832330 ER -