High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History)
By Sherry B. Ortner.
Description
An eminent anthropologist examines the foundings of the first celibate Buddhist monasteries among the Sherpas of Nepal in the early twentieth century--a religious development that was a major departure from "folk" or "popular" Buddhism. Sherry Ortner is the first to integrate social scientific and historical modes of analysis in a study of the Sherpa monasteries and one of the very few to attempt such an account for Buddhist monasteries anywhere. Combining ethnographic and oral-historical methods, she scrutinizes the interplay of political and cultural factors in the ...
ISBN(s)
069109439X, 9788120809499
