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Sensory biographies : lives and deaths among Nepal's Yolmo Buddhists / / Robert Desjarilais



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Autore: Desjarlais Robert R Visualizza persona
Titolo: Sensory biographies : lives and deaths among Nepal's Yolmo Buddhists / / Robert Desjarilais Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, Calif. : , : University of California Press, , 2003
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 396 pages)
Disciplina: 294.3/923/09225496
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Soggetto topico: Lamas - Nepal
Buddhists - Nepal
Death - Religious aspects - Buddhism
Helambu Sherpa (Nepalese people) - Religion
Soggetto geografico: Nepal Religious life and customs
Soggetto genere / forma: Ethnography
Soggetto non controllato: biographical profiles
biographical
buddhist priests
death and dying
death experience
ethnographers
ethnographic studies
gerontology
human struggles
interviews
life and death
life histories
life journey
life stories
nepal
nonfiction biography
physical senses
religious figures
sensory experiences
sociology
spiritual
subjective experience
tibetan buddhists
touching
vision
yolmo buddhists
yolmo elders
yolmo valley
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Robert 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Sensory biographies  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-59734-893-7
9786612762796
1-282-76279-6
0-520-93674-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910782924503321
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Serie: Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; ; 2.