ORTNER, SHERRY B.

High Religion. A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism.

Delhi. Motilal Banarsidass. 1992. 1st Indian Edition. Stock ID #159264

Black and white illustrations, xxi + 245pp, notes, references, bibliography, foxed edges, spine sunned, a good paperback copy.

This book examines the foundings of the first celibate Buddhist monasteries among the Sherpas of Nepal in the early twentieth century. Combining ethnographic and oral historical methods, she scrutinizes the interplay of political and cultural factors in the event culminating in the foundings.

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