03994nam 2200757 a 450 991045009140332120210603203905.01-59734-893-797866127627961-282-76279-60-520-93674-410.1525/9780520936744(CKB)1000000000007192(EBL)224215(OCoLC)475930157(SSID)ssj0000244183(PQKBManifestationID)11186045(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000244183(PQKBWorkID)10169095(PQKB)10373565(MiAaPQ)EBC224215(OCoLC)52872722(MdBmJHUP)muse30373(DE-B1597)520855(DE-B1597)9780520936744(Au-PeEL)EBL224215(CaPaEBR)ebr10048995(CaONFJC)MIL276279(EXLCZ)99100000000000719220020114d2003 uy 0engurun#---|u||utxtccrSensory biographies[electronic resource] lives and deaths among Nepal's Yolmo Buddhists /Robert DesjarilaisBerkeley, Calif. University of California Press20031 online resource (408 p.)Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ;2Description based upon print version of record.0-520-23587-8 0-520-23588-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Illustrations --Note on Transliteration --Kurāgraphy --Hardship, Comfort --Twenty-Seven Ways of Looking at Vision --Startled into Alertness --A Theater of Voices --"I've Gotten Old" --Essays on Dying --"Dying Is This" --The Painful Between --Desperation --The Time of Dying --Death Envisioned --To Phungboche, by Force --Staying Still --Mirror of Deeds --Here and There --"So: Ragged Woman" --Echoes of a Life --A Son's Death --The End of the Body --Last Words --Notes --Glossary of Terms --References --Acknowledgments --IndexRobert Desjarlais's graceful ethnography explores the life histories of two Yolmo elders, focusing on how particular sensory orientations and modalities have contributed to the making and the telling of their lives. These two are a woman in her late eighties known as Kisang Omu and a Buddhist priest in his mid-eighties known as Ghang Lama, members of an ethnically Tibetan Buddhist people whose ancestors have lived for three centuries or so along the upper ridges of the Yolmo Valley in north central Nepal. It was clear through their many conversations that both individuals perceived themselves as nearing death, and both were quite willing to share their thoughts about death and dying. The difference between the two was remarkable, however, in that Ghang Lama's life had been dominated by motifs of vision, whereas Kisang Omu's accounts of her life largely involved a "theatre of voices." Desjarlais offers a fresh and readable inquiry into how people's ways of sensing the world contribute to how they live and how they recollect their lives.Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ;2.LamasNepalBiographyBuddhistsNepalBiographyDeathReligious aspectsBuddhismHelambu Sherpa (Nepalese people)ReligionNepalReligious life and customsElectronic books.LamasBuddhistsDeathReligious aspectsBuddhism.Helambu Sherpa (Nepalese people)Religion.294.3/923/09225496BDesjarlais Robert R1045530MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450091403321Sensory biographies2471906UNINA