Long lives and untimely deaths [electronic resource] : life-span concepts and longevity practices among Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills, India / by Barbara Gerke.

By: Gerke, Barbara, 1966-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 27.Publication details: Boston : Brill, c2012Description: xxiii, 362 p. : ill. (some col.), mapsISBN: 9789004217485 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Tibetans -- India -- Darjeeling (District) -- Social conditions | Tibetans -- India -- Darjeeling (District) -- Religion | Longevity -- India -- Darjeeling (District) | Life span, Productive -- India -- Darjeeling (District) | Old age -- India -- Darjeeling (District) | Darjeeling (India : District) -- Religious life and customs | Darjeeling (India : District) -- Social life and customsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 305.895/4105414 LOC classification: DS432.T5 | G47 2012Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
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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.

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