LEADER 03994nam 2200757 a 450 001 9910450091403321 005 20210603203905.0 010 $a1-59734-893-7 010 $a9786612762796 010 $a1-282-76279-6 010 $a0-520-93674-4 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520936744 035 $a(CKB)1000000000007192 035 $a(EBL)224215 035 $a(OCoLC)475930157 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000244183 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11186045 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000244183 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10169095 035 $a(PQKB)10373565 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC224215 035 $a(OCoLC)52872722 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30373 035 $a(DE-B1597)520855 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520936744 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL224215 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10048995 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL276279 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000007192 100 $a20020114d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSensory biographies$b[electronic resource] $elives and deaths among Nepal's Yolmo Buddhists /$fRobert Desjarilais 210 $aBerkeley, Calif. $cUniversity of California Press$d2003 215 $a1 online resource (408 p.) 225 1 $aEthnographic studies in subjectivity ;$v2 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-23587-8 311 0 $a0-520-23588-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tNote on Transliteration --$tKur?graphy --$tHardship, Comfort --$tTwenty-Seven Ways of Looking at Vision --$tStartled into Alertness --$tA Theater of Voices --$t"I've Gotten Old" --$tEssays on Dying --$t"Dying Is This" --$tThe Painful Between --$tDesperation --$tThe Time of Dying --$tDeath Envisioned --$tTo Phungboche, by Force --$tStaying Still --$tMirror of Deeds --$tHere and There --$t"So: Ragged Woman" --$tEchoes of a Life --$tA Son's Death --$tThe End of the Body --$tLast Words --$tNotes --$tGlossary of Terms --$tReferences --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aRobert Desjarlais's graceful ethnography explores the life histories of two Yolmo elders, focusing on how particular sensory orientations and modalities have contributed to the making and the telling of their lives. These two are a woman in her late eighties known as Kisang Omu and a Buddhist priest in his mid-eighties known as Ghang Lama, members of an ethnically Tibetan Buddhist people whose ancestors have lived for three centuries or so along the upper ridges of the Yolmo Valley in north central Nepal. It was clear through their many conversations that both individuals perceived themselves as nearing death, and both were quite willing to share their thoughts about death and dying. The difference between the two was remarkable, however, in that Ghang Lama's life had been dominated by motifs of vision, whereas Kisang Omu's accounts of her life largely involved a "theatre of voices." Desjarlais offers a fresh and readable inquiry into how people's ways of sensing the world contribute to how they live and how they recollect their lives. 410 0$aEthnographic studies in subjectivity ;$v2. 606 $aLamas$zNepal$vBiography 606 $aBuddhists$zNepal$vBiography 606 $aDeath$xReligious aspects$xBuddhism 606 $aHelambu Sherpa (Nepalese people)$xReligion 607 $aNepal$xReligious life and customs 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLamas 615 0$aBuddhists 615 0$aDeath$xReligious aspects$xBuddhism. 615 0$aHelambu Sherpa (Nepalese people)$xReligion. 676 $a294.3/923/09225496 676 $aB 700 $aDesjarlais$b Robert R$01045530 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450091403321 996 $aSensory biographies$92471906 997 $aUNINA