The Sherpas of the Himalayas practice Tibetan Buddhism, a variety of Mahayana Buddhism. This is a general interpretation of Sherpa culture through examining the relationship between the Sherpas' Buddhism and other aspects of their society, and a theoretical contribution to the study of ritual and religious symbolism. In analysing the symbols of Sherpa rituals, professor Ortner leads us toward the discovery of conflict, contradiction, and stress in the wider social and cultural world. Following a general ethnographic sketch, each chapter opens with a brief description of a ritual. The ritual is then dissected, and its symbolic elements are used as guides in the exploration of problematic structures, relationships, and ideas of the culture. The author uses these rituals to illuminate the interconnections between religious ideology, social structure and experience. Professor Ortner analysis of the rituals reveals both the Buddhist pull toward exaggerating the isolation of individuals, and the secular pull that attempts to overcome isolation and to reproduce the conditions for social community.
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A mountain people of Sikkim State and Nepal, India, the Sherpas are related to Tibetans and share their culture and language. This text explores their lives, relationships and ways through an analysis of their religious rites.
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Nepal is certainly one of the more romanticized places on earth, with its towering Himalayas, its abominable snowmen, and its musically named capital, Kathmandu, a symbol of all those faraway places the imperial imagination dreamt about. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
tiger exorcism, social hospitality, second exorcism, grazing stations, first exorcism, demonic anger, ascetic ideology, village lamas, altar items, demonic tendencies, reincarnation theory, hospitality events, status elevation, ascetic ethic, triple gem, one lama, funeral process, offering rituals, good rebirth, thread crosses, empty mouth, lay life Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tibetan Buddhism, Guru Rimpoche, Sherpa Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhist, Pawa Cherenzi, Mount Everest, Wheel of Life, Phu Tenzing, Solu Khumbu, Universal Emperor New!
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Nepal is certainly one of the more romanticized places on earth, with its towering Himalayas, its abominable snowmen, and its musically named capital, Kathmandu, a symbol of all those faraway places the imperial imagination dreamt about. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
tiger exorcism, social hospitality, second exorcism, grazing stations, first exorcism, demonic anger, ascetic ideology, village lamas, altar items, demonic tendencies, reincarnation theory, hospitality events, status elevation, ascetic ethic, triple gem, one lama, funeral process, offering rituals, good rebirth, thread crosses, empty mouth, lay life Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tibetan Buddhism, Guru Rimpoche, Sherpa Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhist, Pawa Cherenzi, Mount Everest, Wheel of Life, Phu Tenzing, Solu Khumbu, Universal Emperor New!
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- Tibetan Buddhism by L. A. Waddell in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Forms of Symbolic Action (American Ethnological Society Proceedings, 1957-1972, 1969) by Robert F. Spencer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Language As Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method by Kenneth Burke in Back Matter
- Ritual Process, The: Structure and Anti-Structure by Victor Turner in Back Matter
- The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Or the After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane, according to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering by Karma-Glin-Pa in Back Matter
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- Passionate Enlightenment by Miranda Shaw in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity by Melvyn C. Goldstein on page 116, and Back Matter
- Religions of Tibet in Practice by Donald S. Lopez Jr. on page 279, and page 516
- Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas by Vincanne Adams in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Sherpas: Reflections on Change in Himalayan Nepal by James F. Fisher in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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