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Long lives and untimely deaths life-span concepts and longevity practices among Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills, India /

Main Author: Gerke, Barbara, 1966-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Published: Boston : Brill, c2012.
Series:Brill's Tibetan studies library, v. 27
Subjects:
Tibetans > Social conditions. > India > Darjeeling (District)
Tibetans > Religion. > India > Darjeeling (District)
Longevity > India > Darjeeling (District)
Life span, Productive > India > Darjeeling (District)
Old age > India
Darjeeling (India : District) > Religious life and customs. > Darjeeling (District)
Darjeeling (India : District) > Social life and customs.
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10524306
Table of 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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