[PDF.45wm] High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History)

High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History)

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 | #4024357 in Books |  Princeton University Press |  1989-10-21 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.50 x6.25 x1.00l,1.10 | File type: PDF | 269 pages

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||17 of 18 people found the following review helpful.| Deep comprehensive Sherpa history book, best available|By Anna Noehre|We at the Sherpa Friendship Association recommend HIGH RELIGION first and foremost as the best Sherpa history book in English. Sherpa language itself is rarely written, but Ortner went to great lengths to locate original Sherpa histories actually written by educated Sherpa lamas. Her translations of the| |"There is a wealth of information in [Ortner's] book ... a book which is not only an important theoretical contribution but also a delight to read."--Cambridge Anthropology| |

"Ortner has written a provocative, stunning, brilliant to

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 ethn...

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