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High Religion: A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism (Culture/Power/History)
High Religion A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism - Culture/Power/History
Author: Sherry B. Ortner
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 S...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691094397
ISBN-10: 069109439X
Publication Date: 8/1989
Pages: 245
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Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Book Type: Hardcover
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