Lamas, shamans and ancestors : village religion in Sikkim / by Anna Balikci.
Sheds light on the relationship between Buddhism and shamanism. This book examines the relationships between Buddhist lamas and practitioners of bon. It presents their interactions in terms of contexts in which lamas and shamans meet. It shows village lamas and shamans to share a conceptual view of...
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2008.
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| Series: | Brill's Tibetan studies library ;
v. 17. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface; Original Preface and Acknowledgments; A Note on the Text; List of Illustrations; PART I: THE SETTING; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: Perspectives on the Past; Chapter Three: The Hidden Land and its SupernaturalPopulation; Chapter Four: Village Religion: Ritual of Illness; Chapter Five: The Shamans; PART II: THE LAND; Chapter Six: The Land, its Workers, Harvests and Rituals; Chapter Seven: The Land, its Problems and RitualSolutions; PART III: THE HOUSEHOLD; Chapter Eight: Life and Ritual Cycles of Household Members.