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The Rulings of the Night An Ethnography of Nepalese Shaman Oral Texts |
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Gregory G. Maskarinec |
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This is a first-rate account of one of the liveliest places of traditional shamanic practice today, Maskarinees study, based on extensive fieldwork in a blacksmith community of Western Nepal, enriches the complex of Dhaulagiri Shamanism by a caste perspective and invites a wider comparison both with other Himalayan and with Siberian forms of ritual healing. Regarding shamans oral expressions, the book comes with a surprise: not only are their mythical chants imbued with meaning, constituting a c
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Shamanism and Tantra in the Himalayas |
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Claudia Muller-Ebeling, Christian Ratsch and Surendra bahadur Shahi |
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Shamanism and Tantra in the Himalayas is the first all-encompassing study and first-hand report of the shamans and tantrikas of the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal. Shamanism is not an archaic religion but rather a set of practices and beliefs from which Buddhism and Hinduism have borrowed fundamental tenets. This book is the first to examine Nepalese shamanism from an interethnic perspective, allowing the voices and practices of various ethnic groups to emerge. It is also the first to explain the sh
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The Dozing Shaman The Limbus of Eastern Nepal |
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Philippe Sagant |
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The Dozing Shaman is a collection of essays on the Limbus of eastern Nepal, a Tibeto-Burmese speaking group who live in the valleys located between Mount Everest and Mount Kanchenjunga. The Limbus, or the Yakthumbas, are one of the oldest of the Himalayan people.
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Lamas, Shamans and Ancestors |
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Anna Balikci |
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160.00 |
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This careful study of the co-existence over time of Buddhism and shamanism among the Lhopo (Bhutia) people of Sikkim sheds new light on their supposedly hostile relationship. It examines the working relationships between Buddhist lamas and practitioners of bon, taking into consideration the sacred history of the land as well as its more recent political and economic transformation. Their interactions are presented in terms of the contexts in which lamas and shamans meet, these being rituals of t
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FAITH-HEALERS IN THE HIMALAYA An Investigation of Traditional Healers and their Festivals in the Dol |
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Casper J. Miller |
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Long out-of-print, Faith Healers in the Himalaya is a reprint of a classic anthropological study of the shamans of Nepal. With the introduction of western medicine and so-called modern amenities, this is a fascinating account of a traditional way of life that is slowly disappearing in the Himalayan kingdom.
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SHAMANIC TRANCE AND AMNESIA With the Shamans of the Changpa Normads in Ladakhi Changthang |
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Ina Rosing |
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SHAMANIC TRANCE AND AMNESIA With the Shamans of the Changpa Normads in Ladakhi Changthang
Author: Ina Rosing
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Tamang Shamans An Enthnopsychiatric Study of Ecstasy and Healing in Nepal |
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Larry Peters |
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Nepalese Shamanism Essays on Tamang and Tibetan Shamanism |
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Larry G. Peters |
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Result of lifetimes researches in the Himalayas, Trance is a meticulous study exploring the hidden terrains of Tamang and Tibetan Shamanism. An exquisite fusion of creative writing and anthropological research, the book evaluates the relevance of shamanic practices in a modern-day Nepal. Divided into four major sections, Trance opens with a study of phenomenology of Shamanism as a spiritual discipline. Shamanism, Dr. Peters claims, is humankinds first mystical tradition. It is a cross – cultur
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Shamanic Solitudes Ecstasy, Madness and Spirit Possession in the Nepal Himalayas |
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Martino Nicoletti |
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25.00 |
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An itinerary ? only apparently circular ? furrows the universe of Kulunge R੠shamanism in Nepal. A nomadic religion, generated within the space of a double geography that weaves vivid visionary foreshortenings into the flat weft of reality. An extraordinary journey through the principal places composing the universe of shamanic reality: the ?call? by the spirits of the wood. The dreams and initiatic visions; the vocational sickness and flight into the forest ? mandatory steps on the pat
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Himalayan Mountain Cults Sailung Kalingchok Gosaikunda Territorial Rituals and Tamang Histories |
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Gabriele Tautscher |
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Nepal is renowned for the snow-capped Himalayas and their sacred status as the abode of the gods. These sacred seats are considered inaccessible and remain forbidden to human beings.
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Spirit-mediums, Sacred Mountains and Related Bon Textual Traditions in Upper Tibet |
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John Vincent Bellezza |
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250.00 |
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This book uniquely provides first hand insights into the spirit-mediums of Upper Tibet the men and women who channel the gods. John Vincent Bellezza here for the first time presents the conclusions of his extensive research in the region itself shedding light on the historical context the tradition characteristics ceremonies and paraphernalia of the phenomenon.
With extensive interviews with spirit mediums including interpretive material drawn from Tibetan texts annotated translations of ritual
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The Ancestral Forest |
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Martino Nicoletti |
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25.00 |
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Lost among the high hills of eastern Nepal, which has meant centuries of cultural isolation, the Kulunge Rai ethnic group have tenaciously maintained their religious tradition ever since their ancient origins. Bearing witness to a far-off past of hunting and nomadic life, their myths and legends form a plot and scenario that comprise a multitude of invisible entitles: the hunter-spirits and the monkey spirits, the undisputed sovereigns of the forest world; Laladum, the deity who resembles a litt
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TUNSURIBAN Shamanism in the Chepang of Southern and Central Nepal |
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Diana Riboli |
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Until approximately twenty years ago, the Chepang were nomadic hunters and gatherers but now due to dramatic changes in their life style, they live under what might be considered very difficult conditions.
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