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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Gerke Barbara <1966->"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Long lives and untimely deaths [[electronic resource] ] : life-span concepts and longevity practices among Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills, India / / by Barbara Gerke"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Boston, : Brill, c2012"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-283-39586-X"]
[{"$nulls":4},"9786613395863"]
[{"$nulls":4},"90-04-21748-7"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (386 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Brill's Tibetan studies library, , 1568-6183 ; ; v. 27"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"305.895/4105414"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Tibetans - India - Darjeeling (District) - Social conditions"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Tibetans - India - Darjeeling (District) - Religion"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Longevity - India - Darjeeling (District)"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Life span, Productive - India - Darjeeling (District)"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Old age - India - Darjeeling (District)"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Electronic books."]
[{"$nulls":4},"Darjeeling (India : District) Religious life and customs"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Darjeeling (India : District) Social life and customs"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"pt. 1. Ethnographic settings and analytical frameworks -- pt. 2. The field site and Tibetan areas of knowledge -- pt. 3. The life-span and life-forces in Tibetan medical contexts -- pt. 4. The life-span in astrological and divinatory context -- pt. 5. Tibetan Buddhist long-life empowerments."]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","Longevity and long-life practices have been a pan-Tibetan concern for a very long time, but have hardly been studied by anthropologists. This book presents ethnographic accounts and textual material demonstrating how Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills, India, view the life-span and map out certain life-forces in various areas of knowledge. These life-forces follow daily, monthly, and annual cycles. Divinations and astrological calculations are widely but varyingly used by Tibetans to assess the strength of life-forces and forecast difficult periods in their lives. Loss, exhaustion, or periodic weaknesses of life-forces are treated medically or through Tibetan Buddhist practices and rituals. In "]
[{"$nulls":4},"all these events, temporality and agency are deeply interlinked in the ways in which Tibetans enhance their vitality, prolong their life-spans, and avoid ‘untimely deaths.’"]