Description: High Religion : A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism, Paperback by Ortner, Sherry B., ISBN 0691028435, ISBN-13 9780691028439, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
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 Sherpa monasteries and one of the very few to attempt such an account for Buddhist monasteries anywhere. Combining ethnographic and oral-historical methods, she scrutinizes the interplay of political and cultural factors in the events culminating in the foundings. Her work constitutes a major advance both in our knowledge of Sherpa Buddhism and in the integration of anthropological and historical modes of analysis.
At the theoretical level, th contributes to an emerging theory of "practice," an explanation of the relationship between human intentions and actions on the one hand, and the structures of society and culture that emerge from and feed back upon those intentions and actions on the other. It will appeal not only to the increasing number of anthropologists working on similar problems but also to historians anxious to discover what anthropology has to offer to historical analysis. In addition, it will be essential reading for those interested in Nepal, Tibet, the Sherpa, or Buddhism in general.
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Book Title: High Religion : A Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhi
Number of Pages: 270 Pages
Publication Name: High Religion : a Cultural and Political History of Sherpa Buddhism
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Year: 1989
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Buddhism / General (See Also Philosophy / Buddhist)
Item Weight: 13 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Religion
Author: Sherry B. Ortner
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
