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- Title High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism
- Author Sherry B. Ortner
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- Date 1992
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Motilal Banarsidass . Hardcover. New. 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 ethnographic and oral historical methods, she scrutinizes the interplay of political and cultural factors in the events culminating in the foundings. Her work constitutes a major advance both in our knowledge of Sherpa Buddhism and in the integration of anthropological and historical modes of analysis. At the theoretical level, the book contributes to an emerging theory of "practice", an explanation of the relationship between human intentions and actions on the one hand, and the…
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Delhi.: Motilal Banarsidass.. 1st Indian Edition.. 1992.. Black and white illustrations, xxi + 245pp, notes, references, bibliography, signature front free-endpaper, single crease upper-cover, a very good paperback copy. This book examines the foundings of the first celibate Buddhist monasteries among the Sherpas of Nepal in the early twentieth century. Combining ethnographic and oral historical methods, she scrutinizes the interplay of political and cultural factors in the event culminating in the foundings. .
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Delhi.: Motilal Banarsidass.. 1st Indian Edition.. 1992.. Black and white illustrations, xxi + 245pp, notes, references, bibliography, foxed edges, spine sunned, a good paperback copy. This book examines the foundings of the first celibate Buddhist monasteries among the Sherpas of Nepal in the early twentieth century. Combining ethnographic and oral historical methods, she scrutinizes the interplay of political and cultural factors in the event culminating in the foundings. .
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