Long lives and untimely deaths life-span concepts and longevity practices among Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills, India /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Brill,
c2012.
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| Series: | Brill's Tibetan studies library ;
v. 27. |
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.