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Author : Thierry Dodin,Heinz Räther
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 3930983060
Author : Bengt T. Karlsson,T.B. Subba
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136219221
First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Kim Gutschow
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674038080
They may shave their heads, don simple robes, and renounce materialism and worldly desires. But the women seeking enlightenment in a Buddhist nunnery high in the folds of Himalayan Kashmir invariably find themselves subject to the tyrannies of subsistence, subordination, and sexuality. Ultimately, Buddhist monasticism reflects the very world it is supposed to renounce. Butter and barley prove to be as critical to monastic life as merit and meditation. Kim Gutschow lived for more than three years among these women, collecting their stories, observing their ways, studying their lives. Her book offers the first ethnography of Tibetan Buddhist society from the perspective of its nuns. Gutschow depicts a gender hierarchy where nuns serve and monks direct, where monks bless the fields and kitchens while nuns toil in them. Monasteries may retain historical endowments and significant political and social power, yet global flows of capitalism, tourism, and feminism have begun to erode the balance of power between monks and nuns. Despite the obstacles of being considered impure and inferior, nuns engage in everyday forms of resistance to pursue their ascetic and personal goals. A richly textured picture of the little known culture of a Buddhist nunnery, the book offers moving narratives of nuns struggling with the Buddhist discipline of detachment. Its analysis of the way in which gender and sexuality construct ritual and social power provides valuable insight into the relationship between women and religion in South Asia today.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047421719
This volume focuses on the interface between Mongolian and Tibetan cultures to encourage the development of new forms of scholarship across geographical and disciplinary boundaries.
Author : International Association for Tibetan Studies. Seminar
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004155213
This volume focuses on the interface between Mongolian and Tibetan cultures to encourage the development of new forms of scholarship across geographical and disciplinary boundaries.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004271807
Art and Architecture in Ladakh shows how the region’s cultural development has been influenced by its location across the great communications routes linking India with Tibet and Central Asia. Edited by Erberto Lo Bue and John Bray, the collection contains 17 research papers by experienced international art historians and architectural conservationists, as well as emerging scholars from Ladakh itself. Their topics range widely over time, from prehistoric rock art to mediaeval Buddhist stupas and wall paintings, as well as early modern castle architecture, the inter-regional trade in silk brocades, and the challenges of 21st century conservation. Taken together, these studies complement each other to provide a detailed view of Ladakh’s varied cultural inheritance in the light of the latest research. Contributors include: Monisha Ahmed, Marjo Alafouzo, André Alexander, Chiara Bellini, Kristin Blancke, John Bray, Laurianne Bruneau, Andreas Catanese, Philip Denwood, Quentin Devers, Phuntsog Dorjay, Hubert Feiglstorfer, John Harrison, Neil and Kath Howard, Gerald Kozicz, Erberto Lo Bue, Filippo Lunardo, Kacho Mumtaz Ali Khan, Heinrich Poell, Tashi Ldawa Thsangspa and Martin Vernier.
Author : Judith Müller
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031182495
The city of Leh is located in the high mountain desert of Ladakh in the Indian Himalayas and access to water has always been limited there. In recent years, the town has experienced high rates of urbanisation on the one hand, and tourist numbers have increased exponentially on the other, which has implications for the water supply of the people living there. Through several years of on-site research, challenges on various levels were documented and current governance approaches were analysed. This research forms the basis for future approaches to sustainable development.
Author : Serena Hussain
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030564810
Kashmir is one of the longest-standing conflicts yet to be resolved by the international community. In 2000, Bill Clinton declared it the most dangerous place in the world and since then the situation continues to escalate. Positioned between India, Pakistan and China – three nuclear powers – Kashmir is the most militarized zone on the planet. Against this backdrop, the urgency to understand what Jammu and Kashmir means to those who actually belong to its territory has increased. This book not only helps readers navigate subtleties in a complex part of the world but is the first of its kind – written for a global audience from local perspectives, which to date have been sorely lacking.
Author : Marie Lecomte-Tilouine,Pascale Dollfus
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015056933560
Papers presented at a workshop held in Meudon, France in 1998.
Author : Tenzin Dolma
Publisher : Library of Tibetan Works and Archives
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789387023659
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Author : Shahzad Bashir
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1570034958
Messianic Hopes and Mystical Visions tells the story of the Nurbakhshiya, an Islamic messianic movement that originated in fifteenth-century central Asia and Iran and survives to the present in Pakistan and India. In the first full-length study of the sect, Shahzad Bashir illumines the significance of messianism as an Islamic religious paradigm and illustrates its centrality to any discussion of Islamic sectarianism. By tracing Nurbakhshi activity in the Middle East and central and southern Asia through more than five centuries, Bashir brings to view the continuities and disruptions within Islamic civilization across regions and over time. Bashir effectively captures the way Nurbakhshis have understood and debated the meaning of their tradition in various geographical and temporal contexts. Bashir provides a detailed biography of the movement's founder, Muhammad Nurbakhsh (d. 1464). Born to a Twelver Shi'i family, Nurbakhsh declared himself the mahdi, or the Muslim messiah, as an adept of the Kubravi Sufi order under the influence of the teachings of the great Sufi master Ibn al-'Arabi (d. 1240). Nurbakhsh's religious worldview, which Bashir treats in depth in this volume, offers a
Author : Laurent Pordié,Stephan Kloos
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478021759
India has long occupied an important place in Tibetan medicine's history and development. However, Indian Himalayan practitioners of Tibetan medicine, or amchi, have largely remained overlooked at the Tibetan medical periphery, despite playing a central social and medical role in their communities. Power and legitimacy, religion and economic development, biomedical encounters and Indian geopolitics all intersect in the work and identities of contemporary Himalayan amchi. This volume examines the crucial moment of crisis and transformation that occurred in the early 2000s to offer insights into the beginnings of Tibetan medicine's professionalization, industrialization, and official recognition in India and elsewhere. Based on fine-grained ethnographic studies in Ladakh, Zangskar, Sikkim, and the Darjeeling Hills, Healing at the Periphery asks how the dynamics of capitalism, social change, and the encounter with biomedicine affect small communities on the fringes of modern India, and, conversely, what local transformations of Tibetan medicine tell us about contemporary society and health care in the Himalayas and the Tibetan world. Contributors. Florian Besch, Calum Blaikie, Sienna R. Craig, Barbara Gerke, Isabelle Guérin, Kim Gutschow, Pascale Hancart Petitet, Stephan Kloos, Fernanda Pirie, Laurent Pordié
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Himalaya Mountains Region
ISBN : UVA:X006186287
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Himalaya Mountains Region
ISBN : UOM:39015033345326
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Pakistan
ISBN : UOM:39015066142525