Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 362 pages)
,
illustrations (some color), maps
ISBN:
9789004217485
Series Statement:
Brill's Tibetan studies library volume 27
Content:
Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills: The Socio-Political and Historical Background -- 3 Contextualising Tibetan Longevity Practices -- 4 Temporal Dimensions of Life-forces -- 5 Detecting the Life-forces in the Body and the Life-span in the Pulse -- 6 Merit, Karma, Liberating Animals, and the Five Astrological Factors -- 7 Untimely Deaths, Remaining, and Maximum Life-spans -- 8 Divining the Life-span -- 9 Ritual Layers of Long-life Empowerments -- 10 The Sakya Tshe dbang: An Ethnographic Account of a Long-life Empowerment -- 11 Summary and Conclusions -- Appendices -- Glossary of Recurrent Tibetan and Sanskrit Terms -- List of Tibetan Proper Names -- Bibliography -- Index.
Content:
Longevity and long-life practices have been a pan-Tibetan concern for a very long time, but have hardly been studied by anthropologists. This book presents ethnographic accounts and textual material demonstrating how Tibetans in the Darjeeling Hills, India, view the life-span and map out certain life-forces in various areas of knowledge. These life-forces follow daily, monthly, and annual cycles. Divinations and astrological calculations are widely but varyingly used by Tibetans to assess the strength of life-forces and forecast difficult periods in their lives. Loss, exhaustion, or periodic weaknesses of life-forces are treated medically or through Tibetan Buddhist practices and rituals. In all these events, temporality and agency are deeply interlinked in the ways in which Tibetans enhance their vitality, prolong their life-spans, and avoid ‘untimely deaths.’
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004217034
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Gerke, Barbara, 1966 - Long lives and untimely deaths Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2012 ISBN 9789004217034
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9004217037
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Distrikt Darjeeling
;
Langlebigkeit
;
Tibeter
;
Indien
;
Religion
;
Medizin
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=832330
Author information:
Gerke, Barbara 1966-
